The German-Yiddish Encounter
May 10, 2004
Opening Remarks, 10:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m.
Mark Anderson (Columbia University) and Jerold Frakes (University Southern California)Session One, 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
"Yiddish and German: Two Languages, How Many Cultures?"Session chair: Alyssa Masor (Columbia University)
- "The Adoption of Juedisch-Deutsch as a Yiddish Dialect in Holland"
Shlomo Berger (Universiteit Amsterdam) - "Yiddish and the German Standard in the Letter Writing Manuals of Yousef ben Yankev Maarssen"
Marion Aptroot (Universität Düsseldorf) - "The Process of Differentiation from German—When Did the Distinctive Features of Yiddish Arise?"
Steve Lowenstein (University of Judaism, Los Angeles)
Session Two, 3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
"Through a Glass Darkly: Literary Encounters Between German and Yiddish"Session chair: Brukhe Lang Caplan (Columbia University)
- "Registers of Legal Discourse in Medieval Yiddish Epic"
Jerold C. Frakes (University of Southern California) - "Reexamining the Role of Yiddish in Heine's 'Die Bäder von Lucca'"
Sarah Bailey (University of California, Berkeley) - "Anecdotal Evidence: Local Color and Ethnography in the Shtetl Stories of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch"
Samuel Spinner (Columbia University)
Session Three, 4:15 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
"Yiddish and Germany in the Twentieth Century: Two Modern Case Studies"Session chair: Benjamin Sadock (Columbia University)
- "Yiddish Territorialism in Berlin in the 1920s"
Gennady Estraikh (New York University) - "German and German Culture in the Work of Yankev Glatsteyn"
Jan Schwarz (University of Chicago)
Closing Remarks, 5:45 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Jeremy Dauber (Columbia University)