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s part of its theme year on
“Yiddish Matters,
” the Frankel
Institute in Ann Arbor is
presenting a series of events that will
explore different facets of the history
and culture of Yiddish. The head fel-
low in the fall semester will be Julian
Levinson; he will be joined in this role
in the winter by Justin Cammy from
Smith College.
The year will kick off with a concert
by Daniel Kahn, Yeva Lapsker and
Jake Shulman-Ment. In collaboration
with the School of Music, the Frankel
Institute will host the free concert Sept.
26, 7:30 p.m. at Britton Recital Hall in
the Earle V
. Moore Building. Detroit-
born, Berlin-based singer, songwriter,
translator and U-M alumnus Daniel
Kahn will return to Ann Arbor for an
intimate polyglot program in Yiddish,
English, Russian, German and French.
Featuring images and
surtitles designed and
projected by co-trans-
lator and partner
Yeva Lapsker and
acclaimed violinist
Jamie Shulman-Ment,
Kahn’
s songscape
traverses the borders
of language, culture,
history and politics
and draws on Kahn’
s
own original songs
and translations of
Yiddish folk songs.
The Institute has
also planned a series
of lectures related
to Yiddish studies.
U-M professors Geneviève Zubrzycki
and Benjamin Paloff will join fellow
Karolina Szymaniak Nov. 19 to dis-
cuss the revival of Yiddish culture and
language in contemporary Poland in
a panel titled “Yiddish in Poland: Past,
Present and Future.
” Head fellow Julian
Levinson will be a part of a panel dis-
cussion on Yiddish and trauma with
Harriet Murav and Hannah Pollin-
Galay on Feb. 25.
On Dec. 5, 4 p.m. in Room 2022 of
the Thayer Building, there will be a
panel titled “Translating from Yiddish:
New Approaches in Theory and
Practice.
” The panel will address the
challenges of translating Yiddish into
other languages and how translations
are affected by phenomena such as
the rise of Zionism, the Holocaust and
changing relations between American
Jews and the immigrant experience.
It will feature Frankel Institute fellows
Anita Norich, Yaakov Herskovitz
and Julian Levinson. Norich and
Herskovitz will both be returning
to Ann Arbor to participate in the
Institute Theme Year after retiring and
graduating from U-M, respectively.
The theme year will also include
two larger symposia. On Oct. 29, guest
scholar Sunny Yudkoff of University of
Wisconsin-Madison, and fellows Justin
Cammy, Eve Jochnowitz, Saul Zaritt
and U-M professor Mikhail Krutikov
will discuss the place of contemporary
Yiddish in current Jewish culture.
On March 16, Jack Kugelmass, Dov-
Ber Kerler, Amy Kerner, Eli Rosenblatt
and Nick Underwood will discuss the
global role of Yiddish.
Guest scholar Zohar
Weiman-Kelman will
speak Oct. 16 in Rackham
Graduate School’
s East
Conference Room at 4 pm.
Weiman-Kelman’
s lecture,
“
Queer Expectations:
A Genealogy of Jewish
Women’
s Poetry,
” brings
together Jewish women’
s
poetry in English, Yiddish
and Hebrew from the
late 19th century through
the 1970s to explore how
Jewish women writers
turned to poetry to write
new histories.
Naomi Seidman will
speak on Dec. 3 and David Roskies
will speak on Jan. 14, both at 4
p.m. in Room 2022 of the Thayer
Building. Seidman is the Chancellor
Jackman Professor of the Arts in
the Department of Religion and the
Centre for Diaspora and Transnational
Studies at the University of Toronto.
Her lecture will explore the role of
Yiddish in Freud’
s writings. Roskies
teaches Yiddish and modern Jewish
literature at the Jewish Theological
Seminary and the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem. His lecture will focus on
how first-generation tellers of tales in
Eastern Yiddish learned to message
their competing truth claims through
dialogical means. ■
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Celebrating Yiddish
Frankel Institute plans series
on Yiddish language and culture.
DROOKER
Details
Daniel Kahn will be
in concert Sept. 26 in
Ann Arbor. For more
information, visit
lsa.umich.edu/Judaic.
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