Research
The Goldreich Institute supports cutting-edge Yiddish research at multiple levels -M.A., PhD, post-doctoral and faculty.
Below are selected examples of the projects that the institute has helped bring to fruition.
Faculty
- Research conducted by Prof. Hana Wirth-Nesher, Founding Director of the Goldreich Institute.
- Research conducted by Dr. Hannah Pollin-Galay, Director of the Goldreich Institute.
- Research conducted by Prof. Justin Cammy, Fellow of the Goldreich Institute since 2016,
Summer Director of the International Yiddish Summer Program. - Research conducted by Dr. Oren Roman, Teaching Associate.
- Research conducted by Dr. Zehavit Stern, Teaching Associate.
Post-Doctoral students
Gali Drucker Bar-Am
Post Doctoral Scholarship 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17
Narrating Bygone Places: Yizker-bikher and Their Role in Jewish Culture.
Doctoral Students Research
Maya Weinstock 2020
Voice, Body and the Foundation of a Child Subject in Jewish Children’s Literature in Interwar Poland.
Irit Eilam 2016, 2020
Yiddish and Hebrew literature that was written in Poland in the decade of (1930-1939).
Ohad Kohn 2016
A German-Yiddish Mayse: The Yiddish Influence on Paul Celan’s Poetic Language.
Roni Cohen 2016
The Bible in medieval Jewish parodies and entertainment texts.
Esti Nissim 2014
The Mutual Exchanges between Space, Identity and Gender in the Plawriting of Avraham Goldfaden.
Noam Gil 2014
The Burden of Identity.
Menachem keren 2011
The Biography of R' Yoel Teitelbaum – The Satmar Rabbi.
Rona Yona 2008
Let us all be pioneers : popular pioneering and nationalism in Hechalutz in Poland between two world wars.
Netta Abugov 2008
The acquisition of Yiddish and Hebrew by Ultra-Orthodox children in Israel and the United States.
Aya Elyada 2008
Early Modern Christian Literature on Yiddish in the German-Speaking World.
Dror Segev 2006
Folk Voices and ‘The View from Below’: Jews of Poland and the Pale of Settlement at the End of the 19th Century through the Perspective of Early Hebrew Journalism.
MA Research
Ofer Dynes 2007, 2008
Immigration of A Yiddish Writer From Poland to America - Aharon Zeitlin As A Case Study (1939-1959)
Yair Lipshitz 2007
The Embodiment of Jewish Textual Tradition in Theatre and Drama.
Eyal Bassan 2011
Hebrew Fiction Written in Europe Around the Turn of the Century.
Danny Luzon 2012
The Manifold Self in Anzia Yezierska's Fiction : Tensions Between Individual and Communal Identities in Salome of the Tenements and Bread Givers.
Segev Amossi 2013
Around the clock: office and home instrumentality in Yehoshua Perle's naturalistic prose : a reading based on the Frankfurt school critique of modernity.
Yael Levi 2015
Jewish Press in the United States, 1913–1918 : Hebrew, Yiddish and English – Connections and Interactions.
Irad Ben-Yitshak 2017
“I am a Vegeterian:” The Vegeterianism of Melech Ravitch.
Miriam Schwartz 2020
From There to There: Detachment, Language and Sexuality in the Writings of Lamed Shapiro and Y. H. Brenner.
