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Aya Elyada interviews Chava Turniansky and discusses her career, her research, and the state of the field of Old Yiddish language and literature.

Jul 12, 2024

The lat­est install­ment of our annu­al effort to gath­er togeth­er the lat­est publi­ca­tions rel­e­vant to Yid­dish Stud­ies in English.

Mar 14, 2024

The lat­est install­ment of our annu­al effort to gath­er togeth­er the lat­est pub­li­ca­tions rel­e­vant to Yid­dish Stud­ies in English.

Apr 10, 2023

The 2021 installment of our annual effort to gather together the latest publications relevant to Yiddish Studies in English.

Jun 19, 2022

The latest installment of our annual effort to gather together the latest publications relevant to Yiddish Studies in English.

May 28, 2021

Ayelet Brinn discusses Professors Gennady Estraikh’s and Mikhail Krutikov’s long-running series, Studies in Yiddish, for Legenda, and the changes they’ve seen in academic publishing and Yiddish studies over the course of the past twenty years.

Mar 23, 2021

The newest installment of our annual effort to gather together the latest publications relevant to Yiddish Studies in English.

Oct 14, 2020

This piece is offers a broad portrait of the state of Yiddish Studies in China today, including its role in the small but growing field of Jewish Studies in China.

Mar 17, 2020

We are interested in pieces that place the recent events at YIVO in the context of discipline-wide trends, historical, economic, scholarly and otherwise, and that help us think through the broader forces that produced this moment and its possible ramifications.

Feb 09, 2020

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

Dec 04, 2019