Meyer J Weinshel

Contact Me

weins096@umn.edu
612-625-9350

Affiliations

• German, Scandinavian and Dutch
• History
• Jewish Studies, Center for
• Austrian Studies, Center for
• Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Center for

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• ABD: Germanic Studies (History PhD Minor) , University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2018.
• MA: Germanic Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2016.
• BA (with Honors): German Studies, Macalester College , 2012 .

Specialties

• 19th-21st century German & Austrian literature and culture
• Yiddish literature and culture
• translation studies
• language pedagogy

Courses Taught

• Intensive Intermediate German (GER 1003 Summer Session)
• GER/JWST 3633: The Holocaust - Memory, History, Narrative (Teaching Assistant)
• German 1004: Intermediate German (primary instructor)
• German 1003: Intermediate German (primary instructor)
• German 1002: Beginning German (primary instructor)
• German 1001: Beginning German (primary instructor)

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Yiddish Pedagogy Program: Yiddish Book Center (Amherst, MA) , 2018 - 2019
• YIVO Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature & Culture: 2015, 2017
• Vilnius Yiddish Institute : 2016

Research

• National Library of Israel : 2018
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research : YIVO Archives, 2015, 2017

Outreach

• College in the Schools: 2017 - 2018
• Holocaust and Genocide Education Outreach: 2017

Awards

• UMN Center for Austrian Studies Research Grant, Summer 2018
• Hella Lindemeyer Mears Fellowship, 2017 - 2018
• FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowship: Advanced Yiddish, Summer 2017
• GRPP (Graduate Research Partnership Program) Award - Dissertation Research in Vienna, Austria and Vilnius, Lithuania, June 2016 - August 2016
• FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowship: Elementary Yiddish, Summer 2015
• CLA Graduate Fellowship, 2014 - 2015