Eyshe Beirich

Eyshe is a PhD student in the Department of Germanic Languages with a certificate at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. His research focuses on early modern and modern Yiddish and German literature, with specific interests in the literature of violence, translation, and multilingualism.

His writings and translations have appeared in Afn shvel, In geveb, Jewish Currents, Yiddish Branzhe and the Yiddish Forverts. He has taught various levels of Yiddish at Columbia as well as at intensive Yiddish programs like the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, and was a 2024-2025 Yiddish Pedagogy Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center.

He received his BA with Honors in Comparative Germanic literatures and Jewish Studies from the University of Chicago in 2023, where his thesis, The Figure of the Palestinian in Yiddish Literature (1904-1949), won the Best Thesis Prize in Jewish Studies.

Outside of his studies, Eyshe lives and writes in Yiddish.