Yaakov Herskovitz
תפריט
“The Meaning of Yiddish Performance in Dealing with the Trauma of the Holocaust among Survivors in Sweden” by Simo Muir
“From Mordechai and Esther to Julius and Ethel: The Political Nuances of Postwar Yiddish Theatre in Poland” by Rachel Moss
“Creating a Space for Jewish-Yiddish Culture. Nusekh Poyln as a strategy of “feeling-at-home” in Poland after the Holocaust” by Karolina Koprowska
“Immersed in the Past: The Khurbn as a crucial topic in the Yiddish newspaper Folks-Shtime after the March 1968 antisemitic campaign in Poland” by Aleksandra Gluba-Pieprz
Simo Muir is currently Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London and Senior Lecturer in Yiddish at Lund University. His latest publications include “We Live Forever”: Music of the Surviving Remnant in Sweden’, in The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music, 2023; and “’Who Will Laugh the Last?’: Jac Weinstein's Sketches, Poetry, and Songs during Finnish-German Co-Belligerency, 1941–44”, Jewish Social Studies 2/2022. Muir is now working on a Swedish Research Council funded project ‘Witnessing for the Future’ (Uppsala University) in which he is researching various forms of witnessing about the Holocaust in Sweden.
Rachel Moss is Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater and Jewish Studies at Colgate University. Her recent publications include The Dybbuk Century: The Jewish Play that Possessed the World, co-edited with Debra Caplan, (University of Michigan Press, 2023); and forthcoming is “Staging a Tempest on the Brink: Klara Segałowicz’s Remarkable Theatrical Leadership During Uncertain Times,” in Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance, Volume 4: Leaders. Eva Aymami-Rene, Anita Gonzalez, and Kimberly Jew, volume editors. Bloomsbury Press.
Karolina Koprowska is a research-and-teaching assistant at the Institute of Jewish Studies in Krakow. She is an author of the following books: Miejsce urodzenia jako uwikłanie. Projekty tożsamościowe w literaturze polskiej i żydowskiej (2024) and Postronni? Zagłada w relacjach chłopskich świadków (2018), as well as a co-editor of the monograph Świadek: jak się staje, czym jest? (2019).
Aleksandra Gluba-Pieprz is a doctoral candidate, Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology. Member of the Polish Association for Yiddish Studies. Stipendist of the Center for Yiddish Culture in Warsaw (2016, 2017), YIVO Institute for the Jewish Research (2017), Medem Bibliotheque in Paris (2019-2020). Researcher in the grant project: Jews in Poland in the aftermath of the 1967–68 antisemitic campaign. Translator and Yiddish teacher (International Summer Seminar in Yiddish Language and Culture organized by the Center for Yiddish Culture in Warsaw in 2021 and 2020 and during the academic years: 2021/2022; 2022/2023 and currently). Research interests: history of modern Yiddish literature and Yiddish press, comparative cultural studies (especially Polish and Jewish cultures), translation studies, gender and feminist studies, history of antisemitism in Poland.
