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What happens when the focus of Yiddish Studies shifts from “diaspora” to “ecology”?

Mar 17, 2025

All the Yiddish Studies at the AJS conference, unter eyn dakh.

Nov 21, 2024

The Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany is a unique conference that reflects the possibilities that are available with two linguistically-related languages.

Oct 31, 2024

The third annual Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference will be taking place online from February 18-19th, 2024. Organizers Carolyn Beard, Caleb Sher, and Sophia Shoulson discuss the origins of the initiative, this year’s offerings, and the future of Yiddish studies with Chana Toth-Sewell.

Feb 08, 2024

What more can I do for my country, now so badly in need of support, except for teaching minority languages and Slavic-Jewish literature of Ukraine?

Jun 27, 2023

The Di robotn conference celebrated the legacy of bots in the Yiddish corpus, dreaming of futures for robots in the Yiddishist world.

Mar 05, 2023

Yiddish Studies - Present and Future: A conference marking the 15th yortsayt of Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter (z’’l) included discussion and debate.

Mar 03, 2023

In this article Olive Benito-Myles and Naomi Piper-Pell reflect on their experience attending the conference "Di froyen" at the Yiddish Book Center.

Feb 09, 2023

The multifaceted phenomenon of the Yiddish avant-garde holds a borderline mythic status among scholars—a short lived, often contradictory utopian project many of whose protagonists tragically perished.

Jan 30, 2023

This is the In geveb guide to Yiddish at the annual Association for Jewish Studies conference in Boston, December 2022.

Nov 30, 2022

In its multilingualism and multivocality, this workshop on Cold War Yiddish was an anti-eulogy that spoke to afterlives instead of endings.

Mar 29, 2022

Check out the dozens of panels and presentations involving Yiddish at this year’s Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference.

Dec 04, 2019

May 27, 2019

Check out the dozens of panels and presentations involving Yiddish at this year’s Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference.

Dec 03, 2018

New research and translation of Avrom Sutzkever's work leads to a multilingual, multinational convening of Yiddishists in Copenhagen, Denmark and in Lund, Sweden. 

Jun 28, 2018

Check out the dozens of panels and presentations involving Yiddish at this year's AJS. 

Dec 11, 2017

A conference in Paris this summer seeks papers on the literary diasporas of Ashkenaz, with a focus on Hebrew and Yiddish. 

Jan 19, 2016

A report from a November conference in Warsaw "Yiddishism: Mythologies and Iconographies."

Dec 21, 2015

At Yiddish academic conferences in Israel, English is often the language of scholarship and conversation. Why? 

Nov 10, 2015