The Naomi Prawer Kadar International Yiddish Summer Program - Events 2020

H-Judaic The Naomi Prawer Kadar International Yiddish Summer Program - Events 2020

Discussion published by Naomi Yiddish on Monday, June 8, 2020 Undzer morgn: Yiddish Studies Today and Tomorrow

June 18th at 12:00 EST/ 19:00 Israel time via Facebook live Writing Yiddish While Female: An Investigation of Chava Rosenfarb's Legacy

July 14th at 12:00 EST/ 19:00 Israel time via Facebook live Scroll down for more details

Undzer morgn: Yiddish Studies Today and Tomorrow

June 18th, 2020 12:00 EST/ 19:00 Israel Time What are the most pressing topics in Yiddish Studies today? What shape will current debates take in the next five years? Join us for a discussion between Prof. Justin Cammy (Smith College) and young leaders in the field of Yiddish Studies, all alumni of the Naomi Prawer Kadar International Yiddish Summer Program at Tel Aviv University. We will discuss present intellectual endeavors as well as visions for the Yiddish future.

Panelists

Debra Caplan is an Associate Professor of Theater at Baruch College, City University of New York. Her book,Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy (University of Michigan Press, 2018) won the George Freedley Award from the Theatre Library Association. She is currently working on a biography of Yiddish actress Molly Picon.

Eitan Kensky is the Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections at Stanford Libraries and a co-founder of In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. He holds a PhD in Jewish Studies from Harvard University.

Yaakov Herskovitz is a scholar of Hebrew and Yiddish literature with an interest in self-translation and multilingual literature. He is a fellow at the Frankel Institute for

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Advanced Judaic studies at the University of Michigan and now joins the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as part of a German-Israeli research group through the Einstein Stiftung.

Zohar Weiman-Kelman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literatures and linguistics and Blechner Career Development Chair in East European Jewish Culture at Ben-Gurion University. Their first book,Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women’s Poetry, was published by SUNY Press in 2018 and their current project looks at the intersections of sex, language and history in Yiddish.

Moderator

Justin Cammy is associate professor of Jewish Studies and World Literatures at Smith College, and summer director of the Naomi Prawer Kadar International Yiddish Summer Program at Tel Aviv University. His translation of Sutkzever’s Vilna Ghetto is expected next year.

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Writing Yiddish While Female: An Investigation of Chava Rosenfarb's Legacy

July 14th at 12:00 EST/ 19:00 Israel time Chava Rosenfarb emerged from the Lodz ghetto and Auschwitz concentration camp to become a singular voice in the postwar Yiddish literary landscape. Haunted by her Holocaust memories, preoccupied by erotic love and deeply informed by her socialist-Yiddishist upbringing, Rosenfarb has left us a complex oeuvre that has yet to be fully unpacked. An acclaimed new book of Rosenfarb's essays, translated and edited by the author's daughter, the literary scholar Prof. Goldie Morgentaler, re-illuminates Rosenfarb's insights into the Jewish 20th Century. The event will feature a conversation between Morgantaler and Dr. Hannah Pollin-Galay about this new volume and the potential of Rosenfarb's words to inspire today.

Goldie Morgantaler is Professor of English at the University of Lethbridge. She is an award-winning translator from Yiddish to English, especially of Chava Rosenfarb's work, including, most recently, Confessions of a Yiddish Writer, which won a 2019 Canadian Jewish Literary Award.

Hannah Pollin-Galay is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literature at Tel Aviv University, where she is also Incoming Director (Fall 2020) of the Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture. She is the author of Ecologies of Witnessing: Language, Place and Holocaust Testimony (Yale UP, 2018). Her new book project explores how Yiddish changed during the Holocaust and deals extensively with Rosenfarb’s writings. Join via https://www.facebook.com/TheNaomiPrawer/