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ix Acknowledgments This book has benefited from the support of many institutions, colleagues , and friends. At the University of Michigan, where the project began, I had the privilege of studying with a remarkable group of scholars and teachers. Jonathan Freedman, Anita Norich, Deborah Dash Moore, Julian Levinson , and June Howard in particular continue to serve as mentors, models , and inspiration. Hasia Diner was generous in bringing me to New York University and was an ideally supportive colleague during my time there, not least in connecting this book with its editor and publisher . The collegiality of Lawrence Shiffman, Jeffrey Rubinstein, David Engel, Gennady Estraikh, Yael Feldman, Micah Gottlieb, and others in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies helped to make my years as a Dorot Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow at NYU not only productive but also, unwaveringly, a pleasure. Recently, as I have taken on new roles at the Yiddish Book Center and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the support of Aaron Lansky, Susan Bronson, James Young, and Joseph Bartolomeo has made it possible to bring this project to a close while beginning a handful of new ones. Many other scholars offered me suggestions, opportunities to speak, and encouragement during the time I researched and wrote the book. They include Amy Adler, Nehama Ashkenazy, Murray Baumgarten, Sara Blair, Joanna Brooks, Justin Cammy, Beatrice Caplan, Marc Caplan, Mark Cohen,JuneCummins-Lewis,JeremyDauber,MorrisDickstein,Jonathan Elukin, Esther Frank, Richard Freund, Jay Gertzman, Loren Glass, Dagmar Herzog, Amy Hungerford, Samuel Kassow, Ellen Kellman, Ari Y. Kelman , Michael P. Kramer, Mikhail Krutikov, Louis Menand, Tony Michels, Alan Mintz, Dan Miron, Kenneth Moss, Edna Nahshon, Elisa New, Ranen Omer-Sherman, Eileen Pollack, Eddy Portnoy, Riv-Ellen Prell, Leah Price, x Acknowledgments David Rosen, Laurence Roth, Adam Rovner, Rachel Rubinstein, Jonathan Sarna, Raymond Scheindlin, Esther Schor, Jeffrey Shandler, Adam Shear, Mark Shechner, David Shneer, Steven W. Siegel z”l, Ilan Stavans, Michaël Taugis, Alan Wald, Donald Weber, Hana Wirth-Nesher, and Ruth Wisse. The project received financial support from the Mark Uveleer Dissertation Scholarship of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, a summer fellowship from the Feinstein Center at Temple University, the Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture at the Center for Jewish History, and a handful of other grants and fellowships from both the Rackham Graduate School and Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Editors at Tablet magazine, the Forward, the Los Angeles Times, and the Los Angeles Review of Books worked with me on reviews and essays related to my research for this book, and I appreciate their editorial suggestions and their willingness to publish my writing. Carolyn Hessel and her staff at the Jewish Book Council have helped me to connect with audiences across the country and with many contemporary writers. I am grateful to Brukhe Lang Caplan, Vera Szabo, David Braun, and Esther Frank for teaching me Yiddish, and I appreciate the intellectual and professional support of many junior scholars and friends, including Ari Ariel, Daniel Belasco, Amos Bitzan, Lia Brozgal, Greg Cohen, Rachel Gordan, Jessica Hammerman, Lori Harrison-Kahan, Warren Hoffman, Sonia Isard, David Koffman, Avinoam Patt, Benjamin Pollak, Lara Rabinovitch , Andrew Romig, Kerry Wallach, Loren Wolfe, and Paul Zakrzewski. Kevan Choset’s generosity as a reader saved me from too many errors to count. Material from this book has been presented as conference papers and invited talks at the Center for Jewish History, Columbia University , Trinity College, McGill University, and conferences organized by Post45, the Modern Languages Association, and the Association for Jewish Studies. The project has been strengthened by the responses of audience members, respondents, and copanelists. In substantially different form, a portion of chapter 2 appeared in The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches (Piscataway: Rutgers University Press, 2008), edited by Ranen Omer-Sherman and Samantha Baskind, and parts of chapter 4 appeared in Choosing Yiddish: Studies in Yiddish Literature, [34.205.2.207] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 16:16 GMT) xi Acknowledgments Culture, and History (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012), edited by Lara Rabinovitch, Hannah Pressman, and Shiri Goren. No one could ask for a more committed editor than Jennifer Hammer , and I am grateful to her colleagues at New York University Press for the effort they have poured into this project. Many years of support from my family, Lamberts and Kippurs both, made this book possible. And Sara and Asher? What else can I say but that I owe you both so fucking much? This page intentionally...