Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture

Contributors

Contributors Ela Bauer is the chair of the Department of Communication and Film at the Seminar Ha-Kibbutzim College in Tel Aviv. In addition, she teaches in the Jewish History Department at Haifa University and is the academic coordinator of the Posen Research Forum at Haifa University. Her academic interests include the history and culture of Polish Jewry and the history of the Jewish press. Sarah Bunin Benor is an associate professor of contemporary Jewish studies at Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion (Los Angeles). She received her PhD in linguistics from Stanford University in 2004, and she writes and teaches about Jewish language, culture, and community. She is the author of Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism (Rutgers University Press, 2012). Jeremy Dauber is the Atran Associate Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature , and Culture at Columbia University, where he directs its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. He is the coeditor of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History. His most recent book, In the Demon’s Bedroom: Yiddish Literature and the Early Modern, was published in 2010 by Yale University Press. Hasia Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, a professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies and history, and the director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University . Her most recent book, We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945–1962 (New York University 382 Contributors Press, 2009), won the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in the category of American Jewish studies. Her past titles include The Jews of the United States: 1654–2000 (University of California Press, 2004), Hungering for America: Italian , Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (Harvard University Press, 2001), and Lower East Side Memories: The Jewish Place in America (Princeton University Press, 2000). Gennady Estraikh is an associate professor of Yiddish studies in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. His most recent books are Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: At the Crossroads of Diaspora Politics and Culture (Legenda, 2010), Yiddish and the Cold War (Legenda, 2008), and In Harness: Yiddish Writers’ Romance with Communism (Syracuse University Press, 2005). Jordan Finkin is the Weinstock Visiting Lecturer on Jewish Studies at Harvard University. Specializing in modern and modernist Hebrew and Yiddish literature, his research has appeared in a number of venues, including The Jewish Quarterly Review, Prooftexts, and Modernism/Modernity. His book, A Rhetorical Conversation: Jewish Discourse in Modern Yiddish Literature (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), recently appeared, and he is currently at work on a book about the use of time and space in modernist Jewish literature. Shiri Goren is a senior lector in modern Hebrew at Yale University. Her areas of specialization include modern Hebrew literature,Israeli culture,Yiddish literature,the novel,and film theory. She received her PhD from New York University in 2011 and is currently working on the monograph Creative Resistance: Literary Interventions in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, which explores how violence affects real and imagined spaces in Israel of recent years. Goren’s latest article, on Israeli author Gabriela Avigur-Rotem,appears in the anthology Narratives of Dissent: War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture, edited by Rachel S. Harris and Ranen Omer-Sherman (Wayne State University Press, 2012). Dara Horn received her PhD in comparative literature from Harvard University in 2006, where she studied Hebrew and Yiddish. Her first novel, In the Image (W.W. Norton, 2003), received a National Jewish Book Award,the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize. Her second novel, The World to Come (W. W. Norton, 2006), received the 2006 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the 2007 Harold U.Ribalow Prize,was selected as an editors’ choice in the New York Times Book Review and as one of the Best Books of 2006 by The San Francisco Chronicle, and has been translated into eleven languages . Her most recent novel, All Other Nights (W. W. Norton, 2009), was selected as an editors’ choice in the New York Times Book Review. Contributors 383 Adriana X. Jacobs is currently an American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow at Yale University in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program in Judaic Studies. Her areas of specialization include modern Hebrew and Israeli...