Elena Hoffenberg is a PhD student in modern Jewish history at the University of Chicago.
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Briv funem arkhiv: Bundist Liebmann Hersch Visits Palestine
Elena Hoffenberg
From the collections of the University of Capetown, recently damaged by fire, an important document of Bundist history and a reminder of the global breadth - and precarity - of Yiddish archives.
Apr 29, 2021
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The Promise and Peril of Digital Research in Yiddish: An Interview with Gerben Zaagsma
Elena Hoffenberg
Elena Hoffernberg interviews Gerben Zaagsma about his path to studying Yiddish in the Spanish Civil War; the potency and the frustrations of digital research; and the future of digital studies and Yiddish.
Feb 25, 2020
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Making Sense of Squiggles: Teaching and Learning Yiddish Stenography
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The invisible labor, and liberation, of a shorthand for Yiddish.
Oct 20, 2017