Matt Johnson is Assistant Professor in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and subsequently taught at Lund University and at the Ohio State University. He has been a member of the peer review editorial team at In geveb since 2022. His writing has appeared in the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, the Yearbook for European Jewish Literature Studies, The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, and In geveb, among other venues. He is currently completing a book project with the working title Faltering Language: On the Archives of Yiddish and German Literature.
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Blog
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On the role of Yiddish in the Holocaust testimony of Julia Pirotte, a Polish Jewish photographer.
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Article
Old Yiddish Literature: Historical and Cultural Perspectives: A Special Issue of In geveb
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The introduction previews how contributions expand our knowledge of Old Yiddish literature, while also shedding light on the study of popular culture, intercultural exchange, and gender.
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Article
Reading as the Shaping Force of Life: Debora Vogel’s Contributions to Education
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Translation by Matthew Johnson
The writer and educator Debora Vogel contended with questions raised by avant-garde art in the 1920s and 1930s and, throughout her writings, repeated the following question as a leitmotiv: What does “life” mean and which forms does it assume? This article considers how Vogel engaged with these questions about form in various essays and in her educational work at the Jewish orphanage at Zborowska 8 in Lwów.
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Interview
Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays: An Interview with Goldie Morgentaler
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Matthew Johnson and Corbin Allardice talk with Goldie Morgentaler, Chava Rosenfarb’s daughter and editor and translator of a recently published collection of Rosenfarb’s essays.
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Review
Miriam Udel’s Never Better! The Modern Jewish Picaresque
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Miriam Udel’s new book travels with the genre of the picaresque from the shtetl to the USA to the USSR and brings it into the twentieth century.
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