April 25 2 pm: A Biography of Yiddish, with Jeffrey Shandler
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Subject: This Sunday: A Biography of Yiddish, with
Jeffrey Shandler
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LECTURE
SERIES ? Presented
by
KlezCalifornia
,
a
conversation
with author
Jeffrey
Shandler
and
Stanford's
Eitan Kensky
This
Sunday, April
25, 11am -
12:45pm
Pacific Time
(2pm
Eastern, 7pm
London, 8pm
Paris, 9pm Tel
Aviv. Please
confirm local
time!)
Jeffrey
Shandler’s new
book,?Yiddish: Biography of a Language?(Oxford
University
Press, 2020)
presents the
story of
Yiddish in the
unusual form
of a
biographical
profile. In
conversation
with Eitan
Kensky,
Shandler will
discuss how
telling the
story of
Yiddish in
this way
offers
revealing
insights into
the language’s
dynamic
relationship
with its
speakers and
their culture.
Together
Shandler and
Kensky will
explore the
wide range of
symbolic
values that
Yiddish
speakers and
others have
made in the
language.?
Co-presented
by and .
Register
no later than
four hours
before the
event begins!
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Help
us continue to
connect people
and
communities
around the Bay
Area with
Yiddish
culture.
If you
prefer to mail
a check, use
the address
below.
A
sheynem dank! (Thank you very much!)
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