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April 25 2 pm: A Biography of Yiddish, with Jeffrey Shandler

 

2 pm Eastern time

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Subject: This Sunday: A Biography of Yiddish, with Jeffrey Shandler
LECTURE SERIES ? Presented by KlezCalifornia

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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.?

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