Caleb Sher is a PhD student at the University of Toronto's Centre for Comparative Literature whose research focuses on, among other things, the development of secular, Yiddish-language intellectual tradition, with a focus on the biographization of figures such as Marx and Spinoza in Yiddish literature. Caleb’s writing has appeared in In geveb, and their translations have been published with The Loch Raven Review and the Yiddish Book Center's digital translation initiatives. Caleb is also a letterpress printer.
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What Were Our Children Reading? Review of Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature by Miriam Udel
Caleb Sher
In a word, Yiddish children’s literature, per Udel, has a long history, a series of stormy futures past, and a fraught yet fruitful and ongoing aftermath. Throughout the book, Udel maintains the necessary critical distance without losing sight of the vitality present in printed matter for children, the institutions pursuing this work, to say the least of the debates surrounding this highly contested work which suffused each epoch.
May 31, 2026
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The Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference: A Collaborative Project to Share Scholarship and Create Connections
Chana Toth-Sewell, Caleb Sher, Carolyn Beard and Sophia Shoulson
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.
Feb 08, 2024
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What Remains Is Revolutionary: Unboxing Norma Fain Pratt’s Library
Charlotte Apter, Joseph Reisberg and Caleb Sher
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.
Nov 12, 2023