Events

West Bloomfield Lecture Series/JCC of Metro Detroit SAJE event Naomi Seidman, Frankel Institute Fellow Sister Scholars: The Emergence of Orthodox Girls' Education in Interwar Poland This lecture will trace the revolution in the name of tradition enacted by Sarah Schenirer, a divorced seamstress with an eighth-grade education, who created a girls' school system, Bais Yaakov, […]

Jewish Multilingualism in the Midwest: Yiddish Translations of Urban Experience Mellon Sawyer Seminar: Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest Seminar coordinator: Maya Barzilai (UM Associate Professor of Middle East Studies and Judaic Studies) Visiting participants: Mikhl Yashinsky (Actor, playwright, director, and Yiddisht), Jessica Kirzane (Scholar, translator, instructor of Yiddish, University of Chicago), Erin Faigin […]