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AJS 2014 Presidential Address

on the very eve of World War II. Somehow, though lacking much knowledge of any language but Yiddish, , who was a Reform rabbi, to the Yiddishist Uriel Weinreich and the ex-socialist Will Herberg. Over

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 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

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AJS_Perspectives-Travel-Issue-Dwoskin

carved 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

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AJS Perspectives Reel Stories Web

Gorewitz 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

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2004-AJS-Conference-Abstracts

mostly 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

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of 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

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2002 AJS Conference Program Book

) 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

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the 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

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Adventures in Jewish Studies- Camp!

, youth, and Yiddish culture. A Jim Joseph Postdoctoral Fellow in education and religion at Stanford, 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 Scientist

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AJS_Perspectives-Mother-Issue-Website

England 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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New Tools for Jewish Linguistics

of Pennsylvania built a machine-readable parsed and annotated corpus of Yiddish texts. Treebanks are language, literature. At the recent “2008 Czernowitz Yiddish Language International Centenary Conference” held, be able to provide a window “of visibility” on Yiddish and other such languages. Yiddish Wikipedia contains more than five thousand articles, providing access to the usage of Yiddish language, from around the world. Entries may be edited by anyone. Yiddish Dictionary Online is a Yiddish

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B'nai Binge Streaming Programming List for January 26 by Laurie Baron and Beth Chernoff

All Times Are Eastern Standard Time Thursday, January 26 12pm Anne Bayefsky, "The Miracle Child - Fran Malkin," Touro College Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pqw8-NX9QuSBY-QUDh6yow 1 pm, Vivi Lachs, "The Portrayal of Gentiles in Sketches from the London Yiddish Press," YIVO, yivo.org/Good-Goy-Bad-Goy 1pm David Mendelsohn, "The Hajj: The Pilgrimage to End All Pilgrimages," OCCSP, Meeting Registration - Zoom 7pm Tracey Petersen, Jonathan

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2022 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award Recipients

of London In the category of Modern Jewish History and Culture: Europe and Israel Yiddish in Israel, History and Culture: Europe and Israel A Citizen of Yiddishland: Dovid Sfard and the Jewish Communist, In the category of Jewish Literature and Linguistics Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from, of Modern Jewish History and Culture: Europe and Israel The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater Indiana, ) Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture JOSHUA LAMBERT, Yiddish Book Center / UMASS

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Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards

in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine Harvard University Press, The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater Indiana University Press ALYSSA QUINT, YIVO In the category, and Israel Yiddish in Israel: A History Indiana University Press Rachel Rojanski, Brown University, In the category of Modern Jewish History and Culture: Europe and Israel A Citizen of Yiddishland: Dovid, , and American Culture JOSHUA LAMBERT, Yiddish Book Center / UMASS-Amherst (New York University

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Award Recipients

Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine Harvard University, and Israel The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater Indiana University Press ALYSSA QUINT, YIVO, Culture JOSHUA LAMBERT, Yiddish Book Center / UMASS-Amherst (New York University Press, of the American Yiddish Press Sarah Cramsey, Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the "Ethnic, in New York Hasidic Yiddish Vowels” REBECCA POLLACK, Department of Art History, CUNY Graduate

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Jewish Autobiography and Biography Double Talk: Toward a Yiddish Poetics of the Self Marcus, to the selfÓthat is itself, he says, Òby no means unique in Yiddish autobiographical writing.Ó Barbara, about Yiddish. In sheer venom, callousness of toneÑ not to mention masochismÑfew assaults, constituting in effect its leading article, marked both the Yiddish literary debut of Ahad HaÕam, celebrated autobiographical depictions of childhood to be written in Yiddish, Sh.Y. AbramovitshÕs

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