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2021–2023 |
Online courses (at Yivo and Workmens Circle). Webinars. Yiddish Cultural Dictionary (English-Yiddish dictionary project in progress). Lithuanian Yiddish Video Archive (LYVA). Scholar-on-board for study journeys to Lithuania.
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2020 |
Rubinlicht Award for Yiddish Literature (poster for 27. Dec. 2020 event). Also: Cross-Cultural Communications 50th Anniversary Award & Medal. |
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2020 |
Mervyn Smith Memorial Lecture Series (comprising five lectures) at the Capetown Holocaust and Genocide Center. |
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2019–2021 |
Online instructor for intermediate and advanced Yiddish language and literature courses at the Workmens Circle Yiddish Program. |
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2011– |
Independent author, researcher,
lecturer, scholar-on-board. Lecture engagements in 2011–2020 include
the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington, DC); Baruch
College (New York); Center for Jewish Culture at the White Stork Synagogue
(Wroclaw, Poland); Congregation Agudath Sholom (Stamford, Connecticut);
Fairfield University (Connecticut); ISGAP (New York); JDC (New York); JC3
(London); Kew Gardens Hills Synagogue (Queens, NY); Limmud (Parsippany,
Sydney, Vilnius, Warsaw); McGill University (Montreal); Monash University
(Melbourne); Musée d'Aquitaine (Bordeaux); New York Public Library;
Shira Chadasha Synagogue (Melbourne); Syracuse University; Yiddish Seminar
Aronsborg (near Stockholm); Temple Beth Tikvah (Greenacres, Florida); University
of Adelaide (Australia); UCLA (Los Angeles); University of South Carolina
(Columbia); University of Toronto; Yale University (New Haven); Yeshiva
University (New York); Yivo Institute for Jewish Research (New York); York
University (Toronto). Details of Spring
2016 North American lecture tour.
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2016–2020 |
Professor (adjunct) at Vilnius Gediminas Technical
University (Dept. of Philosophy and Cultural Studies). |
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2015– |
Lecturer in Yiddish Language and Literature
(and occasionally other Jewish topics) at the Jewish Cultural and Information
Center (Vilnius). |
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2009– |
Founding editor of Defending History. |
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Spring 2011 |
Jan Randa Visiting Scholar at the Australian Center for Jewish Civilization
(ACJC) at Monash University (Melbourne).
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1999–2010
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Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature
and Culture at Vilnius University, Lithuania.
| 1999 |
Introduction of Yiddish Studies at
Vilnius University.
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| 1999–2001 |
Cofounder, Center for Stateless Cultures.
Director of the Center, 1999-2001.
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| 2001– |
Cofounder and Director of Research,
Vilnius Yiddish Institute at Vilnius University.
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| 1998– |
Founder / Director / Instructor / Senior
Advisor, Annual European Summer Program in Yiddish Language and Literature
(relocated to Vilnius in 1998; founded at Oxford, 1982).
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| 2001–2002 |
Guggenheim Fellow.
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| 2005 |
Director, Yiddish Educator Program
at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute.
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| 2006– |
Scholar-on-board for international
Jewish heritage programs and tours (Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus).
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| 2009 |
Director and cofounder, SLS Jewish
Lithuania Program.
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2006 |
Leyb Rubinlicht Award for Modern Yiddish Literature
(Tel Aviv).
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2005– |
Columnist in the Algemeyner Zhurnal (New
York) [intermittent contributor, 1997-1998, 2004].
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2001–2002 |
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (for Yiddish
literature).
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2001 |
Bronze Feature Award for Our Word Lives On
(BBC Radio 4 produced by Tim Whewell & edited by Maria Balinska).
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1990–2010 |
Expeditions to document the language and folklore
of aged Jewish survivors in Eastern Europe.
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1994–1998 |
Biweekly columnist in the Forverts (New
York) [intermittent contributor, 1972-1973, 1991-1993, 1998-2002].
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1998–1999 |
Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Professor
in Judaic Studies, Yale University.
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1998 |
Founder, Vilnius Program in Yiddish (annual
summer program in Yiddish language and literature at the University of Vilnius).
Director of Studies in 1998, 2000, 2001.
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1997 |
Manger Prize in Yiddish Literature (Tel Aviv).
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1994–1996 |
Founding editor, Yiddish Pen (Yiddish
Di Pen), monthly for literature and research. Edited issues 1-27.
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1996 |
Zhitlovsky Prize in Yiddish Literature (New
York).
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1990–1995 |
Founding editor of Oxford Yiddish (Oksforder
Yidish), collections of research on Yiddish language and literature.
Edited volumes 1 (1990), 2 (1991) and 3 (1995).
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1995 |
Chaim Grade Award in Yiddish Culture, Congress
for Jewish Culture (New York).
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1994 |
Hirsh Rosenfeld Award in Yiddish Literature,
Canadian Jewish Congress (Montreal).
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1987–1988 |
Founding editor of the Winter Studies in
Yiddish series. Edited volumes 1 (Origins of the Yiddish Language,
1987) and 2 (Dialects of the Yiddish Language, 1988).
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1978–1996 |
(Founding) Lecturer / Fellow / Director of Yiddish
Studies at Oxford.
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| 1978–1981 |
Founding Instructor in Yiddish at the Oxford Centre
for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies (OCPHS) [later the Oxford Centre for
Hebrew and Jewish Studies].
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| 1978 |
Initiation of continuous Yiddish courses at the
OCPHS.
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| 1979 |
Organization of the First International Conference
on Yiddish Studies at Oxford.
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| 1981–1995 |
(Founding) Fellow in Yiddish Studies, OCPHS.
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| 1982–1994 |
Director of Yiddish Studies at the OCPHS.
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| 1982 |
Founder, Oxford Programme in Yiddish (annual summer
program in Yiddish language and literature at Oxford) [relocated to
Vilnius in 1998]. Served as director and head instructor, 1982-1990.
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| 1982 |
Introduction of the first Oxford University BA elective
in Yiddish Studies (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages).
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| 1983 |
Introduction of the first Oxford University Masters
level electives in Yiddish Studies (Faculty of Medieval and Modern
Languages & Faculty of Oriental Studies).
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| 1984 |
Initiation of Oxford University’s doctoral
program in Yiddish studies. Supervised seven PhD candidates in Yiddish
studies (1984–1996).
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| 1985 |
Initiator and first director of the annual Winter
Symposium in Yiddish conference series. Seven Symposia held (1985-1991).
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| 1986–1997 |
Fellow of St. Antony's College Oxford.
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| 1987 |
Founding editor of the Winter Studies in Yiddish
series. Four volumes published (1987-1991).
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| 1990 |
Founding editor of the Oxford Yiddish (Oksforder
yidish) series. Three volumes published (1990-1995).
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| 1992 |
Cofounder, Oksforder Yidish Press (Oxford
Yiddish Press) for academic works in Yiddish.
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| 1992 |
Cofounder, Three Sisters Press (Rowen, North Wales)
for literary works in Yiddish.
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| 1994–1997 |
Cofounder and Director of Research, Oxford Institute
for Yiddish Studies.
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| 1996 |
Initiator and full-time instructor (Fall 1996),
Oxford Yiddish Teachers Seminar.
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1986–1991 |
Occasional Inspector, Her Majesty's Inspectorate
[for Yiddish speaking Hasidic schools in Northeast London].
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1988 |
Sholem Aleichem Prize for Yiddish Culture, Sholem
Aleichem House (Tel Aviv).
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1980–1981 |
Visiting Lecturer in Yiddish (intermediate and
advanced courses), Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature
and Culture, Columbia University.
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1982–1983 |
Tutor in Yiddish Language, The City Literary
Institute, London.
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1980 |
John Marshall Medal in Comparative Philology,
University College London.
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1978–1982 |
Doctoral candidate at University College London,
London University, Departments of Hebrew & Jewish Studies and Phonetics
& Linguistics. PhD, 1982. Thesis: Explorations in the History of
the Semitic Component in Yiddish.
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1979 |
Israel Marshak Award in Modern Yiddish Literature,
Canadian Jewish Congress (Montreal).
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1974–1978 |
Columbia University, New York. Major in Linguistics
with specialization in Yiddish Linguistics. BA, 1978. BA thesis: Semantic
Classes Resistant to a Yiddish Sound Shift.
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1970–1974 |
Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
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1970–1972 |
Founding editor, Aleichem Sholem, Yiddish-English
student journal. Editor, nos. 1–5 (1972–1974).
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1967–1970 |
East Midwood Day School, Brooklyn, New York.
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1963–1967 |
Etz Chaim Yeshiva, Brooklyn, New York.
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1962–1963 |
PS 103, Brooklyn, New York.
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1956 |
Born in Brooklyn, New York. |
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