Sunny S. Yudkoff is Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her first book, Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern Jewish Writing, appeared with Stanford University Press in 2019. She is currently at work on her second monograph entitled Yiddish Joy.
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Blog
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What Andreas Mühe’s Mischpoche beckons is a Yiddish kvetsh—someone to squeeze the term, pinch and press it, articulate where the stress should fall.
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Review
Strangers in Berlin by Rachel Seelig
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Seelig’s new book explores the city of Berlin during the Weimar period as a “transit station” for Jewish literature written in German, Yiddish, and Hebrew.
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Pedagogy
The Yiddish Radio Project: Lessons from the Intermediate Yiddish Language Classroom
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The third in a series of reflections on Yiddish pedagogy in the digital age. Here, Sunny Yudkoff discusses her use of radio broadcasts in her Yiddish courses.
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Texts & Translation
אַ ייִדישע היסטאָריקערין פֿון לובלין
A Jewish Historian from Lublin
Jacob Glatstein
Translation by Sunny S. Yudkoff and Saul Noam Zaritt
Jacob Glatstein reminisces about the spa town of Nałęczów and about Bella Mandelsberg, a young historian he met there.
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Article
Auden Can Wait: Introducing the Academic Section of In geveb
Sunny S. Yudkoff
What is Yiddish Studies? We inaugurate In geveb with a symposium on the state of the field, where a cross-section of scholars identify the pressing questions of Yiddish Studies.
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