Rachel Rojanski
Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University and author of Yiddish in Israel: A History (Indiana UP, 2020), specializing in political and cultural history of East European Jewish immigrants and Zionist labor movements.
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Mar 27, 2026 • 1h 11min
Yiddish in Israel: A History
Rachel Rojanski, Brown professor and author of Yiddish in Israel: A History. Sunny Yudkoff, Yiddish literature scholar who rethinks suppression narratives. Shachar Pinsker, scholar linking Yiddish and Hebrew literary worlds. Rachel Brenner, literary scholar on language shift. They debate state influence, Yiddish press and theater, mediating literary figures, and changing attitudes toward Yiddish in Israel.
