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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
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Soviet Ambivalence and Yiddish Continuities at “Hidden in Plain Sight: Yiddish in the Socialist Bloc and its Transnationality”
In its multilingualism and multivocality, this workshop on Cold War Yiddish was an anti-eulogy that spoke to afterlives instead of endings.
Mar 29, 2022
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Your Guide to Yiddish and In geveb at the 2019 AJS Conference
Check out the dozens of panels and presentations involving Yiddish at this year’s Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference.
Dec 04, 2019
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Your Guide to Yiddish and In geveb at the 2018 AJS Conference
Check out the dozens of panels and presentations involving Yiddish at this year’s Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference.
Dec 03, 2018
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Speaking of Sutzkever: On Yiddish in Scandinavia
New research and translation of Avrom Sutzkever’s work leads to a multilingual, multinational convening of Yiddishists in Copenhagen, Denmark and in Lund, Sweden.
Jun 28, 2018
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Your Guide to Yiddish and In geveb at the 2017 AJS Conference
Check out the dozens of panels and presentations involving Yiddish at this year’s AJS.
Dec 11, 2017
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Upcoming Conference: Literary Diasporas in Ashkenaz
A conference in Paris this summer seeks papers on the literary diasporas of Ashkenaz, with a focus on Hebrew and Yiddish.
Jan 19, 2016
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Yiddishist Myths, and the Myth Yiddish Studies Can’t Live Without
A report from a November conference in Warsaw “Yiddishism: Mythologies and Iconographies.”
Dec 21, 2015
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What is the Language of Contemporary Yiddish Scholarship?
At Yiddish academic conferences in Israel, English is often the language of scholarship and conversation. Why?
Nov 10, 2015