Events

Yiddish in Berlin summer program: “Yiddish in Berlin, 1920s and 2020s” (2024)
Presented two “golden ages” of Yiddish in our city to students at the three-week summer school, organized by Paris Center for Yiddish Culture and hosted by the Freie Universität Berlin.

UNESCO Erfurt: “Yiddish in Germany since 1900” (2024)
A brief history of Yiddish-speaking communities in Germany over the past 120 years, presented during a festival celebrating the UNESCO heritage status of Erfurt’s medieval Jewish sites

Yiddish Summer Weimar: “Secular Yiddish Culture Today” (2024)
An multimedia exploration of Yiddish creativity and community across ten cities on four continents, drawing on extensive interviews.

Parataxe Symposium XIV: “Yiddish Centers, Yiddish Futures” (2024)
A keynote talk I gave at the symposium of Yiddish and Hebrew literatures in Berlin, which I co-curated as part of the Parataxe series. Published here on Stadtsprachen Magazine. Recording of the German translation, which I read at the event, available here.

Farbindungen: “Bashevis and the Shub Sisters-in-Law: Supporting Characters Talk Back” (2024)
A paper presented on the panel “Re/writing Legacies” at the 2024 Yiddish Studies conference
Presenter, independent researcher

KlezCalifornia: “Shmues un Vayn: How to Build a Yiddish Social Club” (2024) – recording here
A two-hour online workshop about strategies for informal language revitalization, using our Berlin social club as an example. Supported by a grant from KlezCalifornia’s Yiddish Culture Fund. See also this related article in the Forward.
Presenter

Paris Yiddish Center: “Dertsvishn” – Berlin’s Yiddish History (2023)
A virtual tour of Yiddish-speaking life and culture in Berlin during the Weimar republic.
Presenter

Queer Yiddish (2022–ongoing, available in English and Yiddish)
A multimedia presentation about the intersection of queerness and Yiddish from 1877 to the present.
Presenter

XXVI Symposium of Yiddish Studies in Germany: The Search for a Missing Manuscript by Isaac Bashevis Singer (2023)

A joint presentation with Ane Kleine-Engel (in Yiddish) about an archival research project
Researcher, presenter

Scolnic Institute: Flying with the Golden Peacock – Yiddish Literature & Migration (2023)
A six-session course (via Zoom) examining fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by Yiddish-speaking immigrants to New York, Melbourne, London, Berlin, and Montreal
Instructor

Arbeit und Leben: Yiddish in Berlin, Past & Present (2023, conducted in German)
A 1.5-hour presentation for a continuing education course
Presenter

VdÜ (German Association of Literary Translators): “Translating Diaspora: Jewish Culture in Textual Practice” (2022, conducted in German)
A three-hour lecture and workshop on Jewish culture, tradition, and translation as part of the association’s annual conference. The workshop centered on a translation exercise using Russian, Italian, French, and English source texts.
Presenter and workshop leader

CIEE Berlin: Guest Lecture on Yiddish History and Germany (each semester since 2022)
A guest lecture for undergraduate students about Yiddish language and literature and the history of Yiddish speakers in Germany, featuring the work of the poet Moyshe Kulbak

Yiddish Sof-Vokh UK: “On the Other Side of the Poem: A Yiddish Writing Workshop” (2022, conducted in Yiddish)
A generative poetry writing workshop as part of the weekend retreat
Workshop leader

Westopia Festival: “Sprachraum versus Doikayt: Berlin and the Case for Multilingual (Post)national Literature” (2021)
Burg Hülshof – Center for Literature, Germany
Keynote speaker

A-Festival (AJAR Press): “Translating the Untranslatable” Workshop (2017)
A collaborative, multilingual poetry translation workshop, Hanoi, Vietnam
Co-organizer and co-facilitator with Greg Nissan