Yiddish for Spies: Jewish Literature and Other Forms of Colonial Knowledge (1772-1848)

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 Disenchanged 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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UW Humanities Building 455 N. Park St., Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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