קורצע דערצײלונגען לייענקרײַז Short Story Reading Group

This is a live seminar course and enrollment will be capped at about 15 students. This course will be conducted in Yiddish and English.

Instructor: Anita Norich

This course will begin with a story by Y.L. Peretz but then we’ll choose among stories by both well-known and lesser-known writers. Our choices will be guided by student interest so, after registering for this course, if you have suggestions or preferences about what to read, please email them to norich@umich.edu before the first meeting. Readings will be distributed digitally so that students can read them in advance.

This reading group is designed for those who can comfortably read Yiddish (aloud) or who don’t want to read aloud but can understand Yiddish when it is read to them. All texts will be read in Yiddish.

Course Materials:
The instructor will provide all course materials digitally to students throughout the class.

Anita Norich is the Tikva Frymer-Kensky Collegiate Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Writing in Tongues: Yiddish Translation in the 20th Century (2013), Discovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish American Literature in America During the Holocaust (2007), The Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer (1991); and co-editor of Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives (2016), Jewish Literatures and Cultures: Context and Intertext (2008), and Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures (1992). She translates Yiddish literature, and teaches, lectures, and publishes on a range of topics concerning modern Jewish cultures, Yiddish language and literature, Jewish American literature, and Holocaust literature.

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