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and South Asian Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University, focusing on modern Hebrew and Yiddish

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"Teaching Beyond the Canon: New Approaches to Jewish Studies," Andrea Dara Cooper "Singing Yiddish, Yiddish Theatre Project," Joel Berkowitz and Debra Caplan "Memories/Motifs: Jewish Memory, Archives: The Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project as a Model," Christa Whitney

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[Artist–Scholar Collaborations] FREELANDscapes: Imagining a Jewish Refuge in Australia

are quite far from the European shtetls and yet Yiddish appears to be spoken here (fig. 1). The Yiddish, . The placement of this Yiddish house with direct access to a body of water behind it is also an important

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The Meandering Jew: Joseph Tunkel’s Endless Journey

Journey Nikki Halpern PDF Der Moment, a Yiddish daily newspaper, was published in Warsaw from, of popular Yiddish culture—is a time traveler, but the epochs coalesce. “People, or aggadic interpretation], you’re guided by the Yiddish-language Chumash [Torah]. (64) Der Tunkeler

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[Contemporary In/Justice] Justice in Ukraine: Lessons from the Jewish Past

, as the Soviet Yiddish writer Dovid Bergelson titled his novel about that period. (This work, hands, executing those they believed to be responsible for anti-Jewish atrocities. The Yiddish, , the Yiddish poet Sholem Schwarzbard assassinated Symon Petliura, the leader of the independent Ukrainian

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and yet Yiddish appears to be spoken here (fg. 1). The Yiddish headline running along the paper, of this Yiddish house with direct access to a body of water behind it is also an important marker

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 52 | AJS PERSPECTIVES | SPRING 2022 Der Moment, a Yiddish daily newspaper, was published in Warsaw from 1910 until 1939, when the Germans bombed the building. Writing as Der Tu n keler (the Dark One), Joseph Tu n kel (1881–1949) was a frequent contributor. From April 1 to October 16, as well as the Yid of popular Yiddish culture—is a time traveler, but the epochs coalesce. For Tu, ’re treading on midrashim [halakhic or aggadic interpretation], you’re guided by the Yiddish

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, a strict justice—midas ha-din, as the Soviet Yiddish writer Dovid Bergelson titled his novel about, , and proportional. atrocities. The Yiddish writer Itsik Kipnis tells of the extrajudicial shooting, killed Marko.” Famously, in Paris, the Yiddish poet Sholem Schwarzbard assassinated Symon Petliura

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2026 Divisions, Division Chairs, and Steering Committee Members

) • Medieval and Early Modern Yiddish Languages and Linguistics • Medieval, Holocaust Literature) • Yiddish Literature • Modern Jewish Languages and Linguistics • Modern Yiddish (language/linguistics) • Interdisciplinary approaches to modern literature, culture

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of Massachusetts, Amherst and National Yiddish Book Center), Va n e s s a O c h s ( University of Virginia, In the old Yiddish joke, one Jew asks another, “voss makht a yid?” meaning both how are you, of Yiddish writers such as Ayzik Meyer Dik and Mendele Moykher Sforim (S. Y. A b r a m o v i t s h

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is the most notable). Who dreamed until recently of hearing piyyutim from 1930s Bombay or a Yiddish, i l t U n i versity, Jewish Studies Program Yiddish Book Center AJ S I N STITUTIONAL MEMBERS 2015, ; Mark Slobin on Yiddish theater and cantors; Edwin Seroussi on music of Jews of North African

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and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture MIRA BALBERG University of California Press Yiddish Lives, ? • Yiddish Socialists and the Garment Industry • Jewish Head Coverings and more, in Israel, such as Ladino, Yiddish, Maghrebi, Juhuri, Judeo-Aramaic, Bukharan, Judeo-Iraqi, Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema Brian Ogren SPEAKING YIDDISH TO CHICKENS, OF YIDDISH A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye Barry Trachtenberg MOVIE-MADE JEWS

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elegies, two of which blend English and Yiddish, while a third takes place during the holiday of Sukkot. The signifcance of Yiddish as both a language and cultural marker had often entered our class discussions, so I spurred students to consider the role of Yiddish in poems by Karen Shenfeld

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of a TT job I will not get. Nothing could have validated me more than when a Yiddish cultural activist, a written record in Yiddish of the Black Lives Matter protests. In the ensuing weeks, I published, if our books are never fnished. SARA FELDMAN is preceptor in Yiddish at Harvard University. She

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2024 AJS Honors Its Authors

MagnessOxford University Press The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen: Dybbuks, to Yiddish Hannah Pollin-GalayUniversity of Pennsylvania Press For Women, A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture Saul

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