How to Talk Jewish: Listening to Jewish Voices around the World

This panel discussion will draw focus to sound, voice, and language in relation to our fellowship theme, "The Sound and Music of Jewish Life." 

“Distinctiveness in Jewish Languages around the World”

       Sarah Bunin Benor is Vice Provost, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies, and Director of the Jewish Language Project at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion (Los Angeles). Her books include Becoming Frum, Hebrew Infusion, and Languages in Jewish Communities Past and Present.

“The Obnoxious Jewish Voice and Urban Comedy”

       Gabriella Safran is the Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies in the Slavic Department at Stanford. She writes about Russian and Yiddish literature, folkloristics, and listening. She is working now on a project about Jewish speech style as comic.

"A Kavkazi History of Jewish Mother Tongues"

       A doctoral student in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, Hilah Kohen's published work includes collaborations in Juhuri language advocacy, journalism about environmental movements in the Russian Federation, and translations of anticolonial Russophone authors.