“A Bad Time for Hebrew? Reading a Captivating New Israeli Book at Columbia University” Haaretz, May 16, 2024
“Toxicity Doesn’t Rule the Hamas-Israel Debate on U.S. College Campuses” Haaretz, Nov 26, 2023
“Restaurants may be reopening, but will dining out be the same?” The Washington Post, June 14, 2020
“Review of Seeds in the Desert by Mendel Mann,” In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies, May 20, 2020
“Teaching Through a Bout With Covid-19, ” Chronicle of Higher Education, May 7, 2020
“Translingualism Today”: A Review of Naomi Brenner’s Lingering Bilingualism, (co-authored with Yaakov Herskovitz), In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies, Sept. 2016
“A professor’s Freedom to Tweet: The Steven Salaita Affair,” +972 Magazine, October 7, 2014
“Kawiarnie Berlina – przestrzenie modernizmu hebrajskiego i jidysz”, Cwiszn, Winter 2012 (Polish)
“A Habsburg Treasure in a Desolate Land: On David Fogel’s Viennese Novel,” Ha’aretz Literary Supplement, April 2012 (Hebrew)
“What is Jewish Literature?” (A review of Dan Miron’s Book: From Continuity to Contiguity”) The New Republic, December 2011
“Israeli Snow: On Yung Yisroel for its 60th anniversary,” Ha’aretz Literary Supplement, October 2011 (Hebrew)
“Good Bye Gutenberg” Ha’aretz, April 2011 (Hebrew)
“New Home, Old Language: On Yiddish Literature in Israel,” Cwiszn, Winter 2011 (Polish)
“Tel Aviv, meet the Lower East Side”: A Review of the Novel “Hebrew Publishing Company [Hebrew and English versions], Ha’aretz Literary Supplement, February 2011.
“Kaffee als kultureller Nährboden”, Aufbau:das Jüdische Monatmagazin, June 2009.
“A Rich Brew of Ideas: On Jews and Coffeehouses,” The Jewish Week: Text/Context, April 2009.
A series of five articles on the Jewish Literary Cafés of Europe [Hebrew], Ha’aretz Literary Supplement, May-June, 2008.
“Everything Entered My Heart and Scratched it”: A Review of Haim Sabato’s Come O Wind, Ha’aretz Literary Supplement, April 2008.
“Welcome to Yiddishland” (a review of Davka), Ha’aaretz Sfarim [Hebrew and English Edition], March 2008.