Courses

This new course explores an immensely rich Yiddish cultural history of New York through literary, historical and memoiristic narratives, film, theater and field trips around this “most Yiddish” city of the United States. What role did the city play in the development of modern Yiddish culture in America? How did Yiddish culture contribute to mainstream American culture? The class will be part of the Mapping Yiddish New York (MYNY) Project: we will create digital essays (stories) about our Yiddish New York discoveries. An additional objective of this class is acquiring skills in academic research and digital presentation of the findings as part of the MYNY online archive that is being created at Columbia in cooperation with Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning. All materials are in English translation.