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Caleb Sher

Caleb Sher is currently the Richard S. Herman Senior Bibliography Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, in Amherst, MA. He holds a BA from the University of King's College, Halifax, as well as an MA with a certificate in Jewish studies from the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. He has a hard time fitting his rapidly growing collection of Yiddish books on his tiny bookshelf.

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

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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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What Remains Is Revolutionary: Unboxing Norma Fain Pratt’s Library

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Yiddish Book Center fellows Charlotte Apter, Joseph Reisberg, and Caleb Sher, together with bibliographer David Mazower, unpacked a historic donation of the 500 or so titles that made up Norma Fain Pratt’s collection of women’s writing in Yiddish.

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