Expertise

Fields of Interest:

  • History, dialectology, sociology, and the linguistic analysis of Yiddish
  • History of old Yiddish literature (15th to 18th century)
  • Yiddish-Slavic linguistic and cultural contacts
  • Yiddish and modern Israeli Hebrew
  • Modern Yiddish poetry
Past Affiliations

Cohn Chair, Department of Germanic Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Affiliated Faculty, Russian and East European Institute, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Russian and East European Institute, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
European Studies, Literature, Language Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Russian, Religious Studies
Degrees
PhD, University of Oxford, 1988
B.A., Yiddish Literature and Indo-European Linguistics in Jerusalem, 1983