לייענקרײַז Yiddish Reading Group (Sunday)

Class starts Oct 3 5:00pm-6:15pm

Tuition: $375
YIVO & Yiddish Book Center members: $300**
Students: $200 (Must register with valid university email address)

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This class is co-sponsored by the Yiddish Book Center.

This is a live, online seminar held weekly on Zoom. Enrollment will be capped at about 15 students. All course details (Zoom link, syllabus, handouts, etc.) will be posted to Canvas. Students will be granted access to the class on Canvas after registering for the class here on the YIVO website. This class will be conducted in Yiddish and English.

Instructor: Anita Norich

Who should take this course?
This reading group is designed for those who can comfortably read Yiddish (aloud) or who do not want to read aloud but can understand Yiddish when it is read to them. All texts will be read in Yiddish.

Course Description:
This class will read prose works written in America, beginning with an accessible novel by Kadya Molodovsky: Fun Lublin biz Nyu-york. Further choices will be guided by student interest. After registering for this course, students are welcome to send suggestions or preferences about what the class will read by emailing the instructor at norich@umich.edu. Readings for this class will be provided in Yiddish, and discussions will be in Yiddish and English.

Course Materials:
Materials will be distributed digitally so that students may read them in advance.

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Anita Norich is the Tikva Frymer-Kensky Collegiate Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Writing in Tongues: Yiddish Translation in the 20th Century (2013), Discovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish American Literature in America During the Holocaust (2007), The Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer (1991); and co-editor of Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives (2016), Jewish Literatures and Cultures: Context and Intertext (2008), and Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures (1992). She translates Yiddish literature, and teaches, lectures, and publishes on a range of topics concerning modern Jewish cultures, Yiddish language and literature, Jewish American literature, and Holocaust literature.

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