The Wolfe Institute

The Ethyle R.Wolfe Institute for the Humanities,
in cooperation with the Departments of Judaic Studies, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Modern
Languages and Literatures, English, Sociology, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, BC
Hillel, CUNY Diversity Program Development Fund Grant, Office of the President,
Office of Diversity and Equity Programs, the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences,
and the Carol Zicklin Visiting Chair in the Honors Academy,
presents a symposium on Yiddish and Ladino

The Annual Frances Haidt Lecture Series

Jewish Languages Used by
Women and Other Jews

“Hasidic Yiddish and What We Can Learn From It?”
Zelda Kahan Newman is associate professor of languages and literatures at Lehman College of
CUNY. Her research and teaching focus on linguistics, Hebrew and Yiddish language and literature, as
well as Yiddish culture. She is an active translator of Hebrew and Yiddish literature and currently engaged
in an on-going study of Hasidic women and their use of Yiddish.

“Bi-lingualism among Bobover Hasidic Girls”
Ayala Fader is associate professor of anthropology at Fordham University. Her research interests
include Jewish ethnography, religion, language and culture, gender, childhood, and urban
anthropology. Her book, Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn
(Princeton University Press, 2009), won the New York City Book Award by the New York Society Library
and the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Women’s Studies.

“A Turkish Jew’s Tale: ‘Pasha’”
Jane Mushabac is professor of English at New York City Technology College, where she teaches
creative writing, composition, and literature. Her research interests include fiction, Sephardic Studies,
New York City, and Herman Melville. Mushabac’s writing reflects her Turkish-Sephardic Jewish heritage,
including her own creative writing in Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish language carried from Spain by ancestors

Thursday, April 24, 2014
12:30 to 2 p.m.
Woody Tanger Auditorium
Brooklyn College Library

 

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