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PhD candidate in the Department of Germanic Studies, Matt Johnson, recently published an article in AJS Perspectives on the Yiddish poet Moyshe-Leyb Halpern (1886–1932). Please "Read More" for a link to the article.
Matt's article can be found here.
A new article by Bozena Shallcross has appeared in the Journal of Holocaust Studies (34:3, pp. 220-240): "The Muselmann and the Necrotopography of a Ghetto." See also the interview with Prof. Shallcross by Alexa Asher (University of Haifa) in the journal's "Behind the Issue."
Bozena Shallcross is Professor of Polish Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and an affiliate member of the Department of Comparative Literature. She also serves as a member of the Program in Poetry and Poetics and of the Committee on Creative Writing.
Read the new essay, "Writing Out of Our Minds," written for the Jewish Book Council by Rachel DeWoskin, Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts at the University of Chicago and an affiliated member of the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for East Asian Studies.
Rachel DeWoskin is the author of Two Menus: Poems (The University of Chicago Press, 2020); Banshee (Dottir Press, 2019); Someday We Will Fly (Penguin, 2019); Blind (Penguin, 2014); Big Girl Small (FSG, 2011); Repeat After Me (The Overlook Press, 2009); and Foreign Babes in Beijing (WW Norton, 2005). She was also the faculty organizer of the event in 2019 "The Shanghai Jews: Risk and Resilience in a Refugee Community."
Jessica Kirzane, Asst. Instructional Professor of Yiddish, Dept. of Germanic Studies, was recently interviewed for the podcast Vaybertaytsh. In it she spoke about her new translation of Karpilove's Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love (Syracuse University Press, 2020). To hear the inteview click here.
Jessica teaches Yiddish language as well as courses in Yiddish literature and culture. She received her PhD in Yiddish Studies from Columbia University in 2017. She is the Editor-in-Chief of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. In addition, she has held several positions at the Yiddish Book Center: Translation Fellow in 2017-18, Pedagogy Fellow in 2018-19, and as an editor and contributor to the Teach Great Jewish Books site of the Yiddish Book Center. Her research interests include race, sex, gender, and regionalism in American Jewish and Yiddish literature and has published articles on the idea of rural America in Yiddish literature, interethnic romance in Yiddish periodicals, and lynching in American Yiddish literature.
Bozena Shallcross, Professor in the Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages, was recently interviewed about her research on the Holocaust. The interview was published in Narracje o Zagładzie (2019:5, pp 23-43, interview in Polish) and can be found here.
The Greenberg Center is pleased to acknowledge the new research published by our faculty members and graduate students. Read more about the work of PhD students Chelsie May, Michal Peles-Almagor and Joel Swanson.
Chelsie May, Ph.D. candidate (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) has published the article, “ 'Girls of the Eastern Communities:’ The Intersectionality of Female Arab Jewish Immigrants in Israel-Palestine, 1947-1960,” in The Journal of Jewish Identities (July 2018). A link to the article can be found here.
Michal Peles-Almagor, Ph.D. candidate (Comparative Literature) has published the article, " 'Here is a Different Place': Lieland, Speech, and Hebrew Literary Space," in BGU Review, A Journal of Israeli Culture 5 (2018). The invited article was based on a paper she gave at our Keret Happy Campers conference in 2015 and a link to the article can be found here.
Joel Swanson, a PhD student (Divinity-History of Judaism), just published an article, "We Spring from that History: Bernard Lazare, between Universalism and Particularism," in the journal Religions (2018). The article is part of the Special Issue "Religion and Modern Jewish Thought," with guest editor, University of Chicago Prof. Paul Mendes-Flohr. Find a link to the article here.
The Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce its annual Essay Prize Competition for essays on any topic relating to Jewish Studies, including (but not restricted to) the study of Jewish history, religion, culture, thought, classical and modern texts, and languages.
The Center will award two prizes, each of $500. One prize will be awarded for the best essay related to Jewish Studies written for a course. The essay need not have been written for a course in Jewish Studies or for a course taught by a faculty member in Jewish Studies. A second prize will be awarded for the best B.A. Essay on a topic related to Jewish Studies.
Eligibility: The essay prize competition is open to all students currently registered in the College of the University of Chicago.
Application: Essays must be submitted electronically as a pdf file no later than 4 pm on Thursday, May 3, 2024, to Nancy Pardee at npardee@uchicago.edu.
The Center for Jewish Studies offers travel funding for students giving presentations at academic conferences and for those who must travel away from the University to access resources necessary for their research. Grants for conference travel are accepted throughout the year; research grants are awarded through an annual competition. Please see the application forms below for instructions.
https://Conference Presentation Travel Grants
https://Travel and Research Grants
Edwin Seroussi, Professor of Musicology and Director of the Jewish Music Research Centre at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was the Joyce Z. Greenberg Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago during Winter Quarter 2016. On January 28, 2016, Prof. Seroussi gave a public lecture entitled, "Jews Becoming Modern: The Musical Track." To listen to the lecture, click on this link.