Ekaterina Kuznetsova, born in Moscow, is a Yiddish poet and a teacher of Yiddish language and literature. She is a graduate of the MA program in Yiddish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She currently lives in Berlin, where, as a member of the Yiddish.Berlin group, she organizes Yiddish literary events.
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Blog
Shtetl Berlin: Online Edition
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The Image of Streetwalkers in Itzik Manger’s and Debora Vogel’s Ballads
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By considering the image of the streetwalker in Manger’s and Vogel’s work, this article deepens the understanding of Yiddish creativity as ultimately multimodal and interconnected.
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Blog
“Fragmented Narratives”: A Story of One Yiddish Word
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Blog
Yiddish Studies in Russian: 2014–2019
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Blog
Berlin Yiddish Society Column: Sutzkever’s Yortsayt
Ekaterina Kuznetsova
January 19th, 2020. A small gallery in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district is crowded and abuzz to honor the tenth anniversary of the death of Avrom Sutzkever with poetry, music, and visual art.
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Interview
In Search of “Berlin Grandfathers”: An Interview with Arndt Beck and Ella Ponizovsky-Bergelson
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Dec 12, 2019
Blog
The Shtetl Neukoelln Festival Brings Yiddishland to Berlin
Ekaterina Kuznetsova
Klezmer singers and musicians gather in Berlin to make joyous new sound together.
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Pedagogy
Yiddish in Berlin/Berlin in Yiddish
Ekaterina Kuznetsova
| Ekaterina Kuznetsova reflects on the first-ever Yiddish summer program to take place in the German capital (August 14 - September 1st 2017) |
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