Farbindungen is organized by a committee of graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and early career professionals in Yiddish Studies. If interested in helping organize future events for early career Yiddishists, be in touch at farbindungen@gmail.com.
Biographies of Farbindungen speakers will be circulated prior to the conference.
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Visiting Assistant Professor in Judaic Studies, Virginia Tech
Sean Sidky is Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Virginia Tech. His scholarship focuses on American Judaism, Jewish literature in Yiddish and English, and the Holocaust, and he teaches courses on Judaism, including history, religion, and culture; the Holocaust, Religion in the United States, and popular culture.
Bluesky: @ssidky.bsky.social
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Richard S. Herman Senior Fellow, Yiddish Book Center
Currently the Richard S. Herman Senior Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, where he spends his days surrounded by mountains of books, Caleb also holds an MA in Comparative Literature with a certificate in Jewish Studies from the University of Toronto. His research interests include Yiddish science pedagogy, book history, and digital Yiddish and meme studies, and he is passionate about access to knowledge and public-oriented scholarship. Caleb is also a very amateur letterpress printer, printing in English and Yiddish.
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PhD Candidate in Jewish Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins
Corbin is a PhD student and translator based in Baltimore. Their research focuses on Modern Yiddish poetry and poetics.
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PhD candidate in the Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alona's research interests lie at the intersections of Yiddish and electric light in the interwar period. Outside of the archive, she is also an actor and sometimes-illustrator.
Bluesky: @bachwards.bsky.social
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PhD student in modern Jewish thought, University of Toronto
An alumna of Princeton, Harvard, and Fulbright Germany, Carolyn studies the reception of ancient religious textual traditions in modern Jewish and Christian thought, with an emphasis on the problem of evil and death of God. She lives in Niagara Falls, NY with her husband Michael, their dog Peaches, and their three cats, Maui, Molly, and Potato.
Twitter: @cebeardedbard
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PhD Student in Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Eyshe Beirich is a Yiddish writer, translator, and teacher living in New York City. He is a PhD student at Columbia University in the Department of Germanic Languages, where he works on Yiddish, German, and Palestinian literary history. He has taught Yiddish at Columbia University and the YIVO Uriel Weinreich Summer Program, and his writing has appeared in Yiddish Branzhe, the Forverts, Afn shvel, and In geveb: a Journal of Yiddish Studies.
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MD Student, University of Queensland-Oschner Medical Program
Cameron is a TikTok content creator and Yiddishist from the Chicagoland Jewish community. She is passionate about social media as a forum to share Yiddish language, history, and culture. She was the '21-'22 Communications Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, and is completing her MD with the University of Queensland-Oschner Medical Program.
TikTok/Instagram: @c.o.bernstein
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Program Manager, Jewish Women’s Archive
Sarah Biskowitz works at the Jewish Women’s Archive in Boston as the manager of the a feminist writing fellowship for Jewish teens, and she teaches Yiddish for beginners at the Boston Workers Circle. Previously, Sarah completed the Year Program at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and served as the Richard S. Herman fellow in bibliography and exhibitions at the Yiddish Book Center.
Website: sarahbiskowitz.com
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MPhil Student in Political Theory, University of Oxford
Sophie Cardin is a DPhil student in Political Theory at the University of Oxford. She studies utopia and the history of Yiddish political thought. She holds an MPhil in Political Theory from Oxford and a BA in Political Science from Colorado College.
Website: https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/person/sophie-cardin
Twitter: @SophCardin Bsky: @sophiecardin.bsky.social
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PhD fellow in Religious Studies/Jewish Studies, Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society
Based in Norway, Annie is pursuing PhD research on Yiddish in contemporary Sweden. She is a graduate of UCL and Cambridge University and a former Yiddish Book Center Fellow.
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PhD Student in Yiddish and Jewish Studies, University of Toronto
Jacob's research focuses on the Yiddish literature of the Haskalah, reading it as an articulation of modern Jewish political thought. Jacob also works on critical theory, literary criticism, and theorizing Yiddish, and is an especially big admirer of Walter Benjamin.
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PhD Candidate in English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jacqueline Krass is a writer, translator, and PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work focuses on postwar Jewish American literature in English and Yiddish, situating it within histories of multilingual writing, publishing, and translation in the United States.
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Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler earned her MA in 2021 from the Folklore at UNC-Chapel Hill researching the music and writings of Jewish partisans during the Holocaust. She is interested in the history of Folklore as a discipline, Yiddish as a living language, the politics of secular Jewish identity in the United States, abortion rights and accessibility, labor organizing, and girlhood (broadly construed). She works in abortion funding, lives in Los Angeles, and has two perfect cats.
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PhD Student, Johns Hopkins
Joseph Reisberg was the 2022–2023 Applebaum Family Fellow in Bibliography and Translation at the Yiddish Book Center. His translations appear in Jewish Fiction.net, The Loch Raven Review, and Yiddish in the South.
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Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University
Jules' research explores Polish-Jewish history and musical life in the Warsaw Ghetto; their most recent project explores representations of Beethoven in Yiddish children's literature. They received a PhD in Modern European History from Indiana University Bloomington and they currently teach about European and global history at Harvard University.
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PhD student in Modern Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins University
Sophia began her PhD in Jewish Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins in the fall of 2020 and has helped organize Farbindungen since its first conference in 2022. She is interested in the social and material histories of Yiddish literature and print culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. Sophia also spent two years as the Richard S. Herman Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA.
Twitter: @sophielizbear
Bsky: @sophielizbear.bsky.social
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MA candidate in Yiddish Studies
Lesley Turner is a student in the Yiddish Studies Program at the University of Toronto. Her research project is on Chava Rosenfarb and translation.
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PhD Student In Yiddish and Jewish Studies, University of Toronto
From Toronto, Hannah is an PhD student studying Yiddish in the Germanic Languages & Literatures Department at the University of Toronto. Their research looks to Tkhines as both ritual practice and as material objects in order to uncover their philosophy of grief.
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PhD Student in Literary Studies, University of Warsaw
Jakub holds degrees in Law and Jewish Studies, which he pursued at the College of Inter-Area Individual Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw. For his PhD, he prepares a dissertation entitled “Celia Dropkin’s Oeuvre. Literary Traditions and Contexts of Translation.” His research interests include Yiddish literature, particularly poetry written by women.