League for Yiddish Celebration
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Celebration & Reception
Admission: Free |
Devoted Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of Afn Shvel
Dr. Sheva Zucker
who, after 15 years of inspired and groundbreaking work,
is passing the baton to
New Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Miriam Trinh
Professor of Yiddish and Yiddish literature at Hebrew University, and at many international summer courses; co-founder of “Yo”-Yidish-Ort, a center for Yiddish language and culture in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem
New Executive Director
Noah Barrera
Yiddish teacher, writer and translator; recently coordinator of the international Yiddish program at the Workmen’s Circle; co-translator (with Dr. Nathaniel Deutsch) of Abraham Rechtman’s memoirs of Sh. An-sky’s ethnographic expedition in 1912, to be published by Indiana University Press
Guest Speaker
Dr. Rakhmiel Peltz
Rakhmiel Peltz is a professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He recently launched the website titled "Alive! Educational Restitution After Genocide" (www.alivetobyssunshine.com), and is currently writing a book about Yiddish language standardizers and their struggle for the continuity of the Yiddish language.
Greetings
Dr. David E. Fishman
Professor of Jewish History, Jewish Theological Seminary (New York); author of The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
Musical program
Mira Kessler
Yiddish singer and actress, New Yiddish Rep;
will be appearing in the Netflix series “Unorthodox” in 2020
Accompanied by Binyumen Schaechter
Chair
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary