Learning About Learning: A Conversation with Sandra Fox
“Why Young Jews Love Yiddish”
Thursday, February 8, 1-1:30 p.m.
Via Zoom / Free / Register at https://bit.ly/MC-LAL
Over the last two decades, talk of Yiddish as an alternate path of engaging with Jewishness comes up in the Jewish press almost cyclically — a journalistic evergreen. In this session, historian and Yiddish podcaster Sandra Fox will explain how Yiddish became culturally significant, why young people are flocking to learn Yiddish in larger numbers than ever before, and what the growth of Yiddish says about American Jewish youth culture.
More information can be found in her article, ‘The Passionate Few’: Youth and Yiddishism in American Jewish Culture, 1964 to Present.
Sandra Fox is the Goldstein-Goren Visiting Assistant Professor of American Jewish History at New York University, and Director of the Archive of the American Jewish Left in the Digital Age. Her research interests include American Jewish history, the history of youth and childhood, Yiddish culture, and the history of sexuality. She is the author of The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America (Stanford University Press).
______________
Learning About Learning: Conversations with Scholars of Jewish Education: Join us virtually for a series of conversations hosted by Mandel Center Director Jon A. Levisohn (Brandeis University), in which leading scholars of Jewish education discuss what they have learned from their investigations of various aspects of Jewish education, and why it matters.
Videos and podcasts of past events can be found at https://www.brandeis.edu/mandel/events/videos.html.
Contact Email:mandelcenter@brandeis.edu