Anna Elena Torres is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Torres' book is titled Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature (Yale University Press). Torres is also co-editor (with Kenyon Zimmer) of With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism (University of Illinois Press, 2023).
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Anna Elena Torres
University of Chicago
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Article
Walking with Vogel: New Perspectives on Debora Vogel
Anna Elena Torres, Kathryn Hellerstein and Anastasiya Lyubas
This special issue invites you to walk with Debora Vogel as she maps the spaces of Jewish life through avant-garde forms. We bring together new perspectives on Vogel through poetry, visual art, translation, and scholarship, all in an attempt to follow the many lines of creative and critical inquiry that emerge from Vogel’s work.
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Oct 26, 2021
Blog
Montage-Murals: Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson’s “Present Figures” (Berlin 2021)
Anna Elena Torres
This spring, Debora Vogel’s poetry bloomed riotously across the faces of three buildings in Berlin. Passages from the collection Day Figures (Tog-Figurn, 1930) appeared in Vogel’s Yiddish and in translations into German, Arabic, and English, the letters of those four alphabets painted alongside hobo hieroglyphs, squatter runes, and paleotype. This series of calligraphic murals is the work of Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson (b. 1984).
Oct 26, 2021
Article
The Anarchist Sage/Der Goen Anarkhist: Rabbi Yankev-Meir Zalkind and Religious Genealogies of Anarchism
Anna Elena Torres
How can a political philosophy of anarchism emerge from Talmud study? Yankev Meir Zalkind, early twentieth-century Yiddishist, shows our readers how.
Feb 27, 2019
Pedagogy
Stealing the Border: A Reflection on Teaching Yiddish Borderlands Literature
Anna Elena Torres
Anna Elena Torres shares her reflections about, and syllabus for, the course “Yiddish Poetics of the Border.”
Sep 27, 2018
Interview
Imagining a Dictionary for Solidarity: A Conversation with Artist Yevgeniy Fiks on Russian, Yiddish, and Transnational Queer Dialects
Anna Elena Torres
Anna Elena Torres talks with Yevgeniy Fiks about Internationalism, queer politics, utopias and imaginary mapping, and Soviet Yiddish.
Apr 05, 2017
Interview
Spectacular Vernacular: An Interview with Ezra Berkley Nepon on New Yiddish Theater, Queer Performance Arts, and “Dazzle Camouflage”
Anna Elena Torres
On the beautiful, radical, accessible, possibilities of performance and Yiddish.
Nov 15, 2016
Pedagogy
Notes on Teaching Yiddish Literature and Critical Theory
Anna Elena Torres
Anna Elena Torres shares her reflections about, and syllabus for, the course “Gender and the Body in Yiddish Literature.”
Jun 02, 2016