English 383 / Judaic Studies 317: THE YIDDISH CLASSICS AND MODERNITY Page 1 / 4 P r o f, norich@umich.edu Course Description: What do we know about modern Yiddish culture? What are its origins, , the “grandfather” of Yiddish literature), Sholem Aleichem, and Y.L. Peretz. Their short stories and novels are considered the classics of modern Yiddish literature and offer a provocative introduction, of the adaptations made of their work in Yiddish and English drama and film, and some of the changes
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/docs/default-source/pedagogy/syllabi/norich1.pdf?sfvrsn=e945d906_2carved from Douglas fr, and thus it happened that Yiddish came to the Expo. One of the quotes was based on the words of Y. L. Peretz: Yiddish Goes to Expo Beth Dwoskin Courtesy of the author. AJS, . In 1967, Yiddish culture still existed in North American Jewish centers like Montreal and New Yo r, was less important to the younger generation, though Yiddish schools still operated in places like, as Canadians of the Mosaic faith. They were removed from the heymish world of Yiddish and, like most
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/docs/default-source/ajs-perspectives/travel-issue/ajs_perspectives-travel-issue-dwoskin.pdf?sfvrsn=43b94eab_3on the very eve of World War II. Somehow, though lacking much knowledge of any language but Yiddish, he, , who was a Reform rabbi, to the Yiddishist Uriel Weinreich and the ex-socialist Will Herberg. Over
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/about-ajs/surveys-of-the-profession/ajs-2014-presidential-addressmostly spoke Yiddish; thus one of the first tasks facing these people became sorting _real English_ from _received English._ Even their children, raised in a predominantly Yiddish-speaking household
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/docs/default-source/conference-files/other-conference-materials/2004-ajs-conference-abstracts.pdf?sfvrsn=1fcedb06_2of Yiddish song of her generation, but music was only one of the spheres of activity in which she, institutions, she played a strategic role in the feld of Yiddish Studies, especially during the 1970s, Research. Thanks largely to her encouragement, my initial curiosity about Yiddish was transformed, for whom she provided the point of entry to studying Yiddish and to applying it to their work, , much of what I found exciting about Yiddish Studies was the multidisciplinary community it
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/docs/default-source/ajs-perspectives/ajsp12sp.pdf?sfvrsn=2bfadb06_2rot Israel College) 1.13 Marquis 14 (AV) A HOW-TO GUIDE FOR HASIDIC MATERIALS IN THE YIDDISH, of Minnesota) 1.22 LeDroit Park ADAPTING AN “ABANDONED” CULTURE: TRANSLATION INTO YIDDISH Chair, : Yiddish Children’s Literature and the European Canon in Interwar Poland Jules Riegel (Department, ”: Current Trends in Yiddish New Testament Translations Pamela Brenner (Department of Near Eastern, Yiddish Evangelism through ‘DER FAMILYEN DOKTOR” Cameron Bernstein (University of Queensland
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/docs/default-source/conference-files/2025-conference/ajs-2025-as-of-nov-30.pdf?sfvrsn=6fec02d2_5Gorewitz Why is Yiddish on Screen Funny? 46 Rebecca Margolis An Exorcistical Film Archives, and Haskalah: Rethinking Women’s Role in the Development of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures, Society Yiddish Book Center The Association for Jewish Studies is pleased to recognize the following, | SUMMER 2023 | 19 art photography architecture modernism judaica & bibles holocaust yiddish
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/docs/default-source/ajs-perspectives/ajs-perspectives-reel-stories-web.pdf?sfvrsn=478ba116_3) Chair: Laura S. Levitt (Temple University) Karl Kraus's Yiddish Theater Paul Reitter (Ohio State, Meredith L. Woocher (Brandeis University) 1.9 American Yiddish Culture in an English-speaking World, ) Translating a Culture: Alexander Harkavy, Yiddish-speaking Immigrants, and the Transition to English Eric L. Goldstein (Emory University) Yiddish Intellectuals in Multilingual New York Tony E. Michels (University of Wisconsin) "I can plotz from laughter, Joyce, when your Morris speaks Yiddish
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/docs/default-source/conference-files/ajs-conference-program-books/2002-ajs-conference-program.pdf?sfvrsn=6ccadb06_4the Dan Pagis Archive 52 Na‘ama Rokem Yiddish in Germany(s): Alexander Eliasberg’s Translations, for Jewish Studies Va n d e r b i l t U n i versity, Jewish Studies Program Yiddish Book Center, accessible to Yiddish- speaking Ashkenazic Jews; it was part of a democratization of Jewish knowledge, (InPraiseofthe BaalShemTov). The Tsene-rene is often mischaracterized as a Yiddish translation, y t s h - k h u m e s h , ” a t e r m t h a t m e a n s b o t h t h e “ Pentateuch in Yiddish
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/docs/default-source/ajs-perspectives/ajsp15fa.pdf?sfvrsn=4d98d906_2of the Modern Yiddish Theater Indiana University Press ALYSSA QUINT, YIVO In the category of Social Science, : Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine Harvard University Press AMELIA M, of the Modern Yiddish Theater Indiana University Press ALYSSA QUINT, YIVO In the category of Social, , Asia, & Oceania A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press Ayelet, : What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish Hannah Pollin-GalayUniversity of Pennsylvania Press In the category
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/professional-development/fellowships-and-awards/jordan-schnitzer-book-awards/2020-jordan-schnitzer-book-award-recipientsof Jewish Literature and Linguistics Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro, of Jewish Literature and Linguistics Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro, History and Culture: Europe and Israel The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater Indiana University Press, and the Making of the American Yiddish Press Ayelet BrinnNew York University Press In the category of Jewish Literature & Linguistics Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish Hannah Pollin
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/professional-development/fellowships-and-awards/jordan-schnitzer-book-awards/2021-jordan-schnitzer-book-award-recipientsIn the category of Jewish Literature and Linguistics Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle, of Modern Jewish History and Culture: Europe and Israel The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater, A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press Ayelet BrinnNew York University, to Yiddish Hannah Pollin-GalayUniversity of Pennsylvania Press In the category of Philosophy & Jewish, In the category of Jews and the Arts: Music, Performance, Visual Yiddish Lives On: Strategies
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/professional-development/fellowships-and-awards/jordan-schnitzer-book-awards/2023-jordan-schnitzer-book-award-recipientsand the Making of the American Yiddish Press Ayelet BrinnNew York University Press In the category of Jewish Literature & Linguistics Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish Hannah Pollin, of California Press In the category of Jews and the Arts: Music, Performance, Visual Yiddish Lives, In the category of Modern Jewish History and Culture: Europe and Israel Yiddish in Israel: A History, and Culture: Europe and Israel A Citizen of Yiddishland: Dovid Sfard and the Jewish Communist Milieu
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/professional-development/fellowships-and-awards/ajs-award-recipients/jordan-schnitzer-book-award-recipientsof Yiddishland's Jews, compiled by Mordechai Lipson Jonathan Boyarin and Jonah Sampson Boyarin, with the enduring spirit of Yiddishland’s Jews. Jewish Law: New Perspectives Yonatan, from the Yiddish of an early Holocaust testimony from 1946 given by a woman, Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson, friends since childhood, who became acclaimed Holocaust novelists in Yiddish, Crude Creatures: Confronting Representations of Black People in Yiddish Culture
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/ajs-honors-its-authors-2025of American Jewry, youth, and Yiddish culture. A Jim Joseph Postdoctoral Fellow in education and religion, of Vaybertaytsh: A Feminist Podcast in Yiddish, and serves as a peer review editor at In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. Nicole Samuel Nicole Samuel is Associate Research
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/podcasts/adventures-in-jewish-studies-campon the interwar intersections of electricity and Yiddish life. The Travel Issue Art
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/travel-issue/alona-bachEngland Historic Genealogical Society Yiddish Book Center The Association for Jewish Studies, in which she has been imagined by the Yiddish nineteenth-century authors, the vaudeville comedians, over time and space. From media and genres that span cinema, Yiddish theatre, music, art, literature, , Borders Vanish Anarchism and Yiddish Literature Anna Elena To r res Ya l e u n i v e r s i t y, Jonathan Huener and Andrea Löw [Eds.] YIDDISH TRANSFORMED Reading Habits in the Russian Empire, 1860
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https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/docs/default-source/ajs-perspectives/ajsp07sp.pdf?sfvrsn=33fadb06_2Frankfurt, The Yiddish Book Center's Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library, the Center for Jewish, and video sources, particularly those in less-common languages like Hebrew and Yiddish. Most of the above, in its Geographies of the Holocaust project. The Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories, a project I co-directed with Dov-Ber Kerler, presents a curated website of Yiddish-language
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/publications-research/ajs-news/digital-judaicaTiarra Cooper (UMass Amherst) 21ST CENTURY YIDDISH POPULAR CULTURE: QUOTATIONS, TRANSLATIONS, ) In the Aftermath? The Imaginary Echo-Chamber of Yiddish in Contemporary Culture Zehavit Stern (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “YidLife Crisis” and “Jewbellish”: Yiddish Ethnolinguistic Infusion on YouTube Sarah Bunin Benor (Hebrew Union College) Between Two Goldbergs: The Semiotics of Yiddish, of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures: Rethinking the Loci of Authorship and Textual Production
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