A Disenchanted Elijah: Folklore, Conspiracy and the Crisis of East European Jewry
UW Humanities Building 455 N. Park St., Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Please join us for the Lipton Assistant Professorship in Eastern European Jewish Studies job talks.
Tuesday, February 23, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM; Humanities Building, rm. 5243 Curti Lounge
Lecture: "Yiddish for Spies: Jewish Literature and Other Forms of Colonial Knowledge (1772-1848)." Presented by Ofer Dynes, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.
Wednesday, February 24, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM; Humanities Building, rm. 5243 Curti Lounge
Lecture: "Find Me a Bridegroom Slender and Pale: The Yeshiva Student as Comic Hero in Fin-de-siecle Yiddish and Russian Literature." Presented by Marina Zilbergerts, Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University.
Tuesday, March 1, 3:30–5:00 PM, Where: Humanities Building, rm. 5243 Curti Lounge
A Disenchanted Elijah: Folklore, Conspiracy and the Crisis of East European Jewry
Marc Caplan, Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
Thursday, March 3, 12:30–2:00 PM, Where: Humanities Building, rm. 5243 Curti Lounge
Neither German nor Hebrew nor Yiddish: David Vogel and the Language of the Sanatorium
Sunny Yudkoff, University of Chicago
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