2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Affiliation & Project Titles
- Justin Cammy
Smith College
The Yiddish Trace in Contemporary Jewish Fiction and Popular Culture
- Yaakov Herskovitz
Tel-Aviv University
Bilingualism Reimagined: Yiddish-Hebrew Literature in an Age of Monolingualism
- Eve Jochnowitz
Workmen's Circle and YIVO
A kosherer top un a kosherer lefl: Yiddish Reactions to Modern Jewish Food Practices
- Dov-Ber Kerler
Indiana University
By the Wayside: Contemporary Yiddish Poetry and the post-postvernacular
- Amy Kerner
Brown University
Fragile Inheritance: Yiddish in Buenos Aires, 1930-1970
- Mikhail Krutikov
University of Michigan
Urban Space in Jewish Literature(s)
- Jack Kugelmass
University of Florida
Traveling in Yiddish
- Julian Levinson
University of Michigan
A Translation of Isaiah Spiegel’s flamen fun der erd (Flames from the Earth), an Autobiographical Novel of the Łódź Ghetto
- Harriet Murav
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Archive of Violence: The Literature of Abandonment and the Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
- Anita Norich
University of Michigan
Women's Imaginative Prose in Yiddish
- Hannah Pollin-Galay
Tel-Aviv University
My Foreign Mother Tongue: Khurbn Yiddish and the Cultural Contours of Trauma
- Eli Rosenblatt
Northwestern University
Enlightening the Skin: Yiddish Culture in the Black Atlantic
- Karolina Szymaniak
University of Wroclaw
Entangled Histories of Yiddish Polish Cultural Contacts in the First Half of the
20th Century (up to 1948)
- Nick Underwood
University of California @ Berkeley
Plural Jewish Communities: Yiddish Culture and Jewish Migration in Post-
Holocaust France
- Saul Zaritt
Harvard University
Yiddish, Translation, and Jewish Language Afterlives: A Taytsh Manifesto
