Gender and Jewish Holidays through the Lens of Modern Jewish Literature led by Jessica Kirzane

Date: Tuesday, November 23 (Chanukah) | 7:00 PM
This class will be a cultural history of Channukah gelt, including literary texts, images, and music that will expand our understanding of this custom of giving.

Date: Tuesday, January 11 (Tu BiShvat) | 7:00 PM
In the second class, we’ll look at a variety of representations of Queen Esther throughout modern Jewish literature and how she has been taken
to be a feminist – and antifeminist – figure.

Date: Tuesday, March 8 (Purim) | 7:00 PM
In the third class, we will look at a variety of poetic representations of trees in Yiddish poetry, with particular
attention to the relationship between trees and motherhood.

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)

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)