The Krieger School of Arts & Sciences (KSAS) Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is pleased to announce another cycle of the KSAS Graduate Diversity Ambassador program, where KSAS […]
Graduate Diversity Ambassador application open
Hebrew and Yiddish News Archive
Spinner Awarded NEH Fellowship
Samuel Spinner Received NEH Fellowship for his Book Project Samuel Spinner, Assistant Professor, Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Chair in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, […]
Languages Night – Hebrew & Yiddish Tabling
This spring Hebrew and Yiddish graduate students tabled for undergraduate course registration for Fall 2023 in the Gilman Atrium. The outreach included reading stories, playing games and having conversations with […]
Modern Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew Scripts and Calligraphy Art Workshop
The Hebrew and Yiddish program held an event as a collaboration between Near Eastern Studies and Modern Languages and Literatures. The event was to bring together students from both Biblical […]
Samuel J. Spinner To Receive MLA Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures
The Modern Language Association of America has announced its fifteenth Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, to be awarded in January 2023 to Zelda […]
PhD in Jewish Languages and Literatures Applications
The course of study offers training in Hebrew and Yiddish language, literature, and culture in its many transnational iterations and focuses on the modern period while attending to the long […]
Hebrew Language, Spring 2022
Hebrew language will be offered on three levels in the spring semester, beginner, intermediate, and advanced. All classes are multimodal, interactive and intercultural, offering students the opportunity to hone their […]
New book by Samuel Spinner: Jewish Primitivism
Professor Spinner’s new book Jewish Primitivism was published by Stanford University Press in July 2021. Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish writers and artists across Europe began depicting […]
Congratulations to Professor Samuel Spinner!
Congratulations to Professor Samuel Spinner who was awarded a fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. Professor Spinner will […]