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The Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference: A Collaborative Project to Share Scholarship and Create Connections

The third annu­al Farbindun­gen Yid­dish Stud­ies Con­fer­ence will be tak­ing place online from Feb­ru­ary 18 – 19th, 2024. Orga­niz­ers Car­olyn Beard, Caleb Sher, and Sophia Shoul­son dis­cuss the ori­gins of the ini­tia­tive, this year’s offer­ings, and the future of Yid­dish stud­ies with Chana Toth-Sewell.

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Onbotn fun robotn: Futures for Algorithmic Yiddishkayt

The Di robotn con­fer­ence cel­e­brat­ed the lega­cy of bots in the Yid­dish cor­pus, dream­ing of futures for robots in the Yid­dishist world.

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Yiddish Studies - Present and Future: A Conference Marking the 15th Yortsayt of Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter (z’’l)

Yid­dish Stud­ies — Present and Future: A con­fer­ence mark­ing the 15th yort­sayt of Dr. Mord­khe Schaechter (z’’l) includ­ed dis­cus­sion and debate.

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Report from a Conference: "The Avant-Garde in Yiddish Culture: The 100th Anniversary of Khalyastre", June 14-15, 2022

The mul­ti­fac­eted phe­nom­e­non of the Yid­dish avant-garde holds a bor­der­line myth­ic sta­tus among schol­ars — a short lived, often con­tra­dic­to­ry utopi­an project many of whose pro­tag­o­nists trag­i­cal­ly perished.

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Your Guide to Yiddish and In geveb at the 2022 AJS Conference

This is the In geveb guide to Yid­dish at the annu­al Asso­ci­a­tion for Jew­ish Stud­ies con­fer­ence in Boston, Decem­ber 2022.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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