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The essays gathered in this volume convey their author's extraordinary energy and passionate commitment to the continuity of Yiddish language and culture. Written in a Yiddish that is lucid and witty, they highlight the importance of her lifelong work in the field of Yiddish and beat with the heart of a contemporary, living language. Kathryn Hellerstein, Professor of Yiddish and Director of the Jewish Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania

"""The essays gathered in this volume convey their author's extraordinary energy and passionate commitment to the continuity of Yiddish language and culture. Written in a Yiddish that is lucid and witty, they highlight the importance of her lifelong work in the field of Yiddish and beat with the heart of a contemporary, living language."" Kathryn Hellerstein, Professor of Yiddish and Director of the Jewish Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania"

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"Dr. Sheva Zucker was for 15 years (2005-2020) the executive director of the League for Yiddish and the editor of its magazine Afn Shvel. Her work has been published in various Yiddish publications, including Di Goldene Keyt, Forverts and Yugntruf. She has taught and lectured on Yiddish language, literature and culture on five continents and has taught Yiddish for many years in the Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture, currently under the auspices of Bard College and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City. For 5 years she was also the academic director of the program. She is the author of the textbooks Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vols. I & II and the editor and producer of the CD The Golden Peacock: Voice of the Yiddish Writer. She served as the director of the Naomi Kadar International Yiddish Teacher Training Seminar held in Maryland in 2013 and 2011 and in NY in 2016. Her research and translations focus mostly on women in Yiddish literature. She was, for several years, the Translation Editor of the Pakn Treger, the magazine of the National Yiddish Book Center. From 2012 to 2014 she published a blog, ""Candles of Song: Yiddish Poems about Mothers."" She was born in Winnipeg, Canada and currently resides in New York City. Kathryn Hellerstein, Ph.D., is Professor of Yiddish and the Ruth Meltzer Director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of numerous articles on women in Yiddish literature as well as the award-winning A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987 (Stanford University Press, 2014). Her volume Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky (Wayne State University Press, 1999) which she edited, translated and introduced was chosen as one of the ""Great 100 Jewish Books"" by the National Yiddish Book Center. Yankl Salant has, since 2005, been the Graphic Designer of Afn Shvel magazine, published by the League for Yiddish. He is also an editor and Yiddish translator. He is on the faculty of the Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture and is an expert on reading Yiddish handwriting"

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