Yiddish Then and Now with Miriam Isaacs
Past SessionsWednesday, December 21, 2022 • 27 Kislev 5783 - 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM - Zoom
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 • 20 Kislev 5783 - 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM - Zoom
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 • 6 Kislev 5783 - 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM - Zoom
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 • 22 Cheshvan 5783 - 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM - Zoom
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 • 8 Cheshvan 5783 - 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM - In-Person
This series, conducted in English, offers a window into the world of Yiddish language and cultural expression. Once the language of eleven million Jews, after the Holocaust it seemed to be destroyed. But now there is a generation of young people carrying on the legacy.
$36 for members; $50 for nonmembers
Register below. Zoom link included in confirmation email. Please note only the first session is in-person, the remainder of the sessions are on Zoom.
Click here to read a recent Washington Post article about the recent surge of interest in Yiddish.
Sponsored by the Edith Black Endowment for Yiddish and Jewish Culture.
MIRIAM ISAACS is Retired Affiliate Visiting Associate Professor of Yiddish Language and Culture, University of Maryland, College Park. She received her Ph.D., and M.A. in Linguistics from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. She is a native speaker of Yiddish and has language skills in English, French, German, Modern Hebrew and Russian. Dr. Isaacs has written many articles including, “Jewishness: Expression, Identity, and Representation” in Jewish Cultural Studies (2008), “La literature enfantine en Yiddish dans les communautes hassidiques americaines” in Les cahiers du judaisme (2010), “Hebrew-Yiddish Bilingualism Among Israeli Hasidic Children” in Issues in the Acquisition and Teaching of Hebrew (2009) and “Shards” in Second Generation Voices: Reflections by Children of Holocaust Survivors and Perpetrators (2001).
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