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Yaakov Herskovitz is a fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies where he is working on a book manuscript on Self-Translation between Yiddish and Hebrew in the post-Mendele world.

Shari Rabin is an assistant professor of Jewish Studies and acting director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston. She received her PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University in 2015.

In mid-nineteenth century America, early use of postvernacular Yiddish helped Jews locate themselves in the culture.