Rachel Mines has a PhD from King’s College, University of London (2000), where she specialized in Old English language and poetry. A child of Yiddish-speaking Holocaust survivors, she has been studying Yiddish language and literature since 2007. One of her goals in translation is to make Yiddish literature available to college and university students, Jewish and non-Jewish, who would not otherwise be exposed to it. Rachel has taught at King’s College (London), the University of British Columbia (Vancouver), and is retired from Langara College in Vancouver, where she lives. Aside from Yiddish, she is also involved in Holocaust education and outreach in in Lithuania, where her father was born and raised, and among Lithuanians abroad, particularly those living in Vancouver. Her project website is www.shtetlshkud.com.
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Rachel Mines
Langara College
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די כאָלערע
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