Post-Khurbn Yiddish in the Americas: From Canada to Mexico

Tamara Gleason, Jan Schwarz, and Matthew Johnson

“Yiddish Usage as a Key Element in Early Commemoration Efforts in Mexico during the Holocaust” by Tamara Gleason

“Chava Rosenfarb’s Artistic Journey from the Lodz Ghetto to Post-War Montreal” by Jan Schwarz

“‘…on the loneliness of the Yiddish writer’: Chava Rosenfarb’s Self-Translations” by Matthew Johnson

Tamara Gleason Freidberg is a PhD candidate at UCL London. Her publications include Di Shvue, los bundistas en México y su participación en la comunidad judía (Mexico City: Palabra de Clío, 2016).

Jan Schwarz is Associate Professor Emeritus of Yiddish Studies at Lund University, Sweden. His publications include Imagining Lives: Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers (Wisconsin UP, 2005) and Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust (Wayne State UP 2015; paperback 2021). With Prof. Urszula Chowaniec, he is collaborating on a research project about post-war Jewish women writers: the Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb and the Swedish writer Zenia Larsson

Matthew Johnson received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2022 and subsequently taught at the Ohio State University. He currently works in the Centre for Languages & Literature at Lund University.

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