1. Allen Grossman , “Jewish Poetry Considered as a Theophoric Project,” in The Long Schoolroom: Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997), 160
2. Maeera Y. Shreiber , Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007), 179–227
3. Irena Klepfisz , “ Der mames shabosim / My Mother’s Sabbath Days,” in A Few Words in the Mother Tongue: Poems Selected and New (1971–1990) (Portland, OR: Eighth Mountain Press, 1990), 230–231
4. Leon Wieseltier , Kaddish (New York: Vintage, 1998), 6
5. Osherow offers another poignant elegy for Yiddish in her sonnet sequence “A Crown for Yiddish,” which will appear in her forthcoming collection, Ultimatum from Paradise (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014)