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The Yiddish of Jerusalem: The Old Yishuv in the Research of Mordecai Kosover – Live on Zoom
Yaad Biran | Delivered in Yiddish.
In the 1930s, Mordecai Kosover, the young researcher of Yiddish from Vilna, lived in Jerusalem and recorded his observations about the local Yiddish of the Old Yishuv’s residents. This was part of a larger project of his: to demonstrate that the history of Jews of the modern-day Land of Israel began not with Rishon LeTzion (the 1882 first settlement of the New Yishuv), but decades earlier, and that, furthermore, the Jewish community of the Land of Israel was not a world apart but was in fact very connected to a worldwide “Yiddishland.”
About the Speaker
Dr. Yaad Biran received his Ph.D. in Yiddish literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He teaches Yiddish language and culture at Beth Shalom Aleichem in Tel Aviv, at Haifa University and in the Tel Aviv summer course. He is a writer and a translator, the author of a short stories book "Laughing with Lizards" (Hebrew) and the writer of "Esther's Cabaret," a contemporary Yiddish Cabaret in Tel Aviv. He also guides Yiddish tours in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
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