Every Fall Hebrew & Yiddish come together to celebrate the new Jewish Year by writing Rosh Hashanah Cards together in both Hebrew and Yiddish. This year in Fall 2025 students […]
Hebrew and Yiddish News Archive
Announcing our Fall Lecture Series
Please join us this semester for our Fall Lecture Series. Dates below. Times and locations to be shared on our calendar. Department of Modern Languages & Literatures Fall 2025 Lecture Series Sept. 9thAnna […]
Spinner Awarded NEH Fellowship
Samuel Spinner, Assistant Professor, Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Chair in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, received an NEH fellowship for his book project Monuments of […]
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 […]