Meyer J Weinshel

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German, Scandinavian and Dutch
Room 320 FolH
0143A
9 Pleasant St SE

Affiliations

My dissertation traces the ways translations of German-language poetry into Yiddish shaped modern Jewish cultural developments in Habsburg and interwar Central Europe. Essential to my project are the ways German- and Yiddish-language writers situated themselves and their works across shifting cultural and political borders over the course of the twentieth century.

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

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

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

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

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