Anna Elena Torres is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. Torres' forthcoming book is titled Any Minute Now the World Streams Over Its Border!: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature (Yale University Press).Torres's other work includes translating Dvoyre Fogel's poetry collection Manekinen (1934).
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Anna Elena Torres
University of Chicago
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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
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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
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Anna Elena Torres shares her reflections about, and syllabus for, the course “Gender and the Body in Yiddish Literature.”
Jun 02, 2016