Erin Faigin is a PhD student in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is interested in Yiddish literature in the American West, frontier mythology, and Jewish borderlands. She received her BA in History from UC Berkeley in 2016.
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Blog
The Latest in Yiddish Studies in English: 2017
Rachelle Grossman, Erin Faigin, Saul Noam Zaritt and Jessica Kirzane
A bibliography of the output of Yiddish scholarship published in English last year.
Apr 23, 2018
Blog
Where Text Meets Sweat: Reading Yiddish Utopia in the Utah Landscape
Erin Faigin
Erin Faigin asks utopian questions in Clarion, Utah, the site of a former Yiddish agricultural colony.
Dec 27, 2017
Pedagogy
Lernen yidish far sholem: Teaching Yiddish in a Secular Jewish School
Erin Faigin
Erin Faigin discusses the role of Yiddish language instruction in the curriculum of the Sholem Community, a supplemental secular Jewish school in Marina Del Ray, California.
Mar 20, 2017
Interview
Anti-fascist Yiddish Song: Shneer and Eisenberg on Lin Jaldati
Erin Faigin
Lin Jaldati was a secular Dutch Jew who brought Yiddish music to communist East Germany. Now, Jewlia Eisenberg and David Shneer are reviving her music and investigating her revolutionary life.
Feb 28, 2016
Pedagogy
Reflections on Space in Learning Yiddish
Erin Faigin
Erin Faigin, who studied Yiddish in various summer programs, reflects on the importance of space and place in Yiddish Studies, asking herself, “What does it mean to speak Yiddish in this place?”
Dec 22, 2015