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At Yid­dish aca­d­e­m­ic con­fer­ences in Israel, Eng­lish is often the lan­guage of schol­ar­ship and con­ver­sa­tion. Why? 

Nov 10, 2015

A report from a Novem­ber con­fer­ence in War­saw ​“Yid­dishism: Mytholo­gies and Iconographies.”

Dec 21, 2015

A con­fer­ence in Paris this sum­mer seeks papers on the lit­er­ary dias­po­ras of Ashke­naz, with a focus on Hebrew and Yiddish. 

Jan 19, 2016

Check out the dozens of pan­els and pre­sen­ta­tions involv­ing Yid­dish at this year’s AJS. 

Dec 11, 2017

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

Check out the dozens of pan­els and pre­sen­ta­tions involv­ing Yid­dish at this year’s Asso­ci­a­tion for Jew­ish Stud­ies Annu­al Conference.

Dec 03, 2018

May 27, 2019

Check out the dozens of pan­els and pre­sen­ta­tions involv­ing Yid­dish at this year’s Asso­ci­a­tion for Jew­ish Stud­ies Annu­al Conference.

Dec 04, 2019

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

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

Nov 30, 2022