On October 5, we welcomed Jessica Kirzane for a lecture on Yiddish author Miriam Karpilove (1888-1956.). Karpilove was a prolific Yiddish author of short stories and serialized novels. She was known for her sharp-tongued, daring, and unapologetically women-centric attitude. Kirzane will explored Karpilove's pointed criticism of turn-of-the-century Yiddish free love that came at considerable expense to women.
Jessica Kirzane is the assistant instructional professor of Yiddish at the University of Chicago and the editor-in-chief of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. She is the translator of Miriam Karpilove's Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle against Free Love (Syracuse University Press, 2020).
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