Writing in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the Twentieth Century

Acknowledgments

xiii Acknowledgments Iwas honored to have been invited by the University of Washington’s Jew­ ish Studies Program to take part in the Stroum Lecture Series, and I am grateful to Althea Stroum, Paul Burstein, and Naomi Sokoloff, my longtime friend and interlocutor, for their kindness during my stay in Seattle. My thanks to the anonymous readers for the University of Washington Press for their comments and suggestions and to Alexandra Hoffmann, Joshua Lambert, Daniel Mintz, and Benjamin Pollak—graduate students past and present who were superb research assistants and whose passion for literature, for scholarship, for Yiddish, for American Jewish culture, (for dead­ lines), and for getting things right has been inspiring. I have benefited enor­ mously from my colleagues in the Department of English and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. The Fellows with whom I participated in the theme year “Jewish Languages” at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies will remember parts of this work, their invaluable help in shaping it, and the errors they kept me from making. Writing in Tongues ...