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  • Jewish Multilingualism in the Midwest: Yiddish Translations of Urban Experience

    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 […]

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  • Mellon Sawyer Seminar: Ezra Korman, Poet of My City

    Performance by Mikhl Yashinsky, followed by Q&A with Mikhail Krutikov The author and anthologist Ezra Korman was born in Kiev and later adopted Detroit as his home, becoming the city’s dean of Yiddish letters. Mikhl Yashinsky, born in Detroit a few decades later, has claimed an inheritance of thought and poetry in the author’s life […]

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  • BIC Pirke Avot with Rabbi Dobrusin

    Beth Israel Congregation 2000 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Rabbi Dobrusin will facilitate “Zoom” discussions on the classic Rabbinic text: Pirke Avot. While the title is usually translated as “Teachings of the Sages”, a more interesting translation is "Chapters of Fundamental Principles." Pirke Avot consists of short rabbinic statements concerning ethics, faith and interpersonal relationships. Reading Pirke Avot helps us focus on the values […]