Presented by Harvard Yiddish Studies and sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University, our inaugural conference took place virtually on Sunday, February 20th and Monday, February 21, 2022.

Conference Theme: Yiddish Networks

Keynote speakers: Jessica Kirzane (University of Chicago) and Karolina Szymaniak (University of Wrocław)

Keynote moderator: Dalia Wolfson (Harvard University)

Workshop facilitators: Ri (Reyze) J. Turner (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Cassandra Euphrat Weston (University of Michigan), and Sandra Chiritescu (Columbia University)

Faculty moderators: Sara Feldman (Harvard University), Sandra (Sosye) Fox (Stanford University), Samuel Spinner (Johns Hopkins University), Anna Elena Torres (University of Chicago), Sunny Yudkoff (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Saul Zaritt (Harvard University)

Presenters:  Corbin Allardice (Independent Scholar), Eyshe Beirich (University of Chicago), Cameron Bernstein (Yiddish Book Center), Sarah Biskowitz (Yiddish Book Center), Annabel Cohen (Jewish Theological Society), Sophie Edelhart (University of Toronto), Netta Ehrlich (New York University), Lila Fabro (University of Buenos Aires), Matthew M. Greene (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Elena Hoffenberg (University of Chicago), Benjamin Kersten (UCLA), Jacqueline Krass (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ezra Lebovitz (Harvard University), Race MoChridhe (Academy of Holy Angels), Anna Nienartowicz (University of Wrocław), Caleb Sher (Independent Scholar), Tetiana Shyshkina (Central European University), and Daria Vakhrushova (Heinrich Heine University)

Organizing committee: Alona Bach (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Carolyn Beard (Harvard University), Sarah Biskowitz (Yiddish Book Center), Shoshana Boardman (Harvard University), David Kurkovskiy (University of California Berkeley), Ethan Levin (Harvard University), Sophia Shoulson (Johns Hopkins University), and Dalia Wolfson (Harvard University)

Faculty advisor: Saul Zaritt (Harvard University)