Sunday, July 17
10-11:15am Pacific / 1-2:15pm Eastern / 8-9:15pm Israel
?Jeffrey Shandler,?author of?Yiddish: Biography of a Language?
The most widely spoken Jewish language on the eve of the Holocaust, Yiddish continues?
to play a significant role in Jewish life today, from Hasidim for whom it is a language of daily?
life to avant-garde performers, political activists, and LGBTQ writers turning to Yiddish?
for inspiration.??(Oxford Universitiy Press) presents the?
story of this centuries-old language, the defining vernacular of Ashkenazi Jews, from its?
origins to the present. In this event,??will present about his new?book
in conversation with Sarah Bunin Benor of HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project.
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Dr. Shandler is Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University and?
the?author and co-editor of several books about Eastern European Jewish?
culture, including:?Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland?
before the Holocaust?(2002);?Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language?
and Culture?(2005);?Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory?
(co-edited with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, 2012); and?
Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History?(2014).
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Event Co-sponsors:?
HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project;
California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language ();?
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