SAUL NOAM ZARITT “A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture” May 14, 2025, 4:00. PM, at the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Sponsored by the Department of Germanic Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Greenberg Center for JewishStudies
May 14, 2025
4:00 pm
Franke Institute for the Humanities
Saul Zaritt is a professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard University. He studies modern Jewish writing and the politics of translation, examining how writers cross and inhabit boundaries between cultures. He is the author of Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody (Oxford, 2020) and most recently A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture (Fordham, 2024). He is a founding editor of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies and creator of the database of popular Yiddish literature shund.org. In conversation with Ania Aizman, assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Saul Noam Zarrit’s talk was rescheduled to May 14 (originally scheduled for April 8).