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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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