Ada Rapoport-Albert seminar series on contemporary Hasidic Yiddish

This online seminar series is devoted to all aspects of Hasidic Yiddish language and linguistics, both historical and contemporary.

About

Seminars and roundtable discussions will be held on Zoom one evening a month from August 2020 to July 2021. The series will include participants from a wide variety of academic backgrounds including linguistics, Yiddish studies, and Yiddish pedagogy, with speakers from within and outside Hasidic Yiddish-speaking communities. Talks are free and open to the public. The series comprises an element of our ongoing AHRC-funded research project on contemporary Hasidic Yiddish based in the UCL Departments of Linguistics and Hebrew & Jewish Studies. It is dedicated to the memory of Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert (1945-2020) and her scholarly work on the history of Hasidism.

Events

4 August, 2020 Inaugural round table: ‘Perspectives on Hasidic Yiddish language’ with Khayele Beer, Meyer Labin, Tali Loewenthal, Heather Munro, Naomi Seidman

13 October 2020 Heritage Hasidic Yiddish in Israel Dalit Assouline, University of Haifa

3 November 2020 Yiddish and the imbrications of language, ideology, and gender in Habad Hasidism Eli Rubin, UCL

1 December 2020 Yiddish in London Habad schools (talk in Yiddish, with English subtitles) Tali Loewenthal, UCL

12 January 2021 Attitudes toward change in a maintained language: Yiddish in New York (talk in Yiddish, with live English translation) Isaac L. Bleaman, UC Berkeley

2 February 2021 The Rise of Hasidic Yiddish theatre Wojciech Tworek, University of Wrocław

2 March 2021 Gefilte fish and sushi: Hasidic orientation and vowel change in New York Hasidic Yiddish Chaya Nove, CUNY

11-15 March 2021 Ada Rapoport-Albert Seminar Series on Hasidic Yiddish Discussion Weekend

12 April 2021 Weinreich’s Transcarpathian Journey Leyzer Burko, Bar Ilan University

11 May 2021 Yiddish among ex-Haredim Eli Benedict, UCL and Yung Yidish

15 June 2021 Enlightened Hasidic Yiddish: From Digital to Print-Media Ayala Fader, Fordham University

3 August 2021  The Politics of Language: Haredi Language Choice and Political Identity in Israel Heather Munro, University of Durham

TBC Is Haredi Satmar Yiddish a Creole? Steffen Krogh, Aarhus University

 

Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish YouTube Channel

Visit our YouTube channel for access to recordings of previous seminars in the series, as well as curated Hasidic Yiddish playlists