Yiddish Ecologies: Velder, Felder, Berg un Tol - Sunday Panel 2: Ecological History

This two-day conference examines Yiddish literature and ecology through panels on Animal Studies, the Poetics of Landscape, Environmental History, Ecofeminism and Gender Studies, and Postcolonialism and Do'ikayt.

University of Chicago, February 16-17, 2025.

Sunday Panel 2: Ecological History
Moderator: Jessica Kirzane

Caleb Sher, “Gemores and Geviksn: Writing Yiddish Nature Education with Avrom Golomb”

Cecile E. Kuznitz, “Building Doikeyt through Engagement with Nature: The Example of Vilna”

Hannah Pollin-Galay, “Forced Outside of Nature: Yiddish Ecopoetry of the Holocaust” (Zoom)

This conference is sponsored by the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies with funding from the Joseph S. Pinkert Memorial Fund and the Bonnie Kaplan Fund for Yiddish Language, Culture, and History, and the Department of Comparative Literature.