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Lecture: Electric Shabes, Electric Khanike: A History of Keeping Yidishkeyt Current in New York
Wednesday December 25, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST
507 - Hebrew Union College
How did electricity change Yiddish-speaking New York? This talk illuminates a New-York-centered history of electrification through the lens of Yiddish sources, paying particular attention to how yidishkeyt adapted to electric lights. From the early 1880s through the 1930s, as electric lights went from dazzling spectacles to normal parts of everyday life, New York’s Yiddish speakers were both witness to and participants in the changing technological and cultural world around them. We’ll spotlight inventors, cartoonists, rabbis, columnists, and toddlers of yore to learn how Yiddish speakers reacted when tradition met modernity.

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Alona Bach

Alona Bach is a PhD candidate in MIT's Doctoral Program in HASTS (History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society), where she conducts research on electricity in the interwar Yiddish press. As a Yiddish-language instructor, she has taught at institutions including Brandeis... Read More →
Wednesday December 25, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST
507 - Hebrew Union College 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012
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