Description: A collection of articles by Sheva Zucker, editor of Afn Shvel magazine. Includes 6 sections: I. Personal Essays; II. From the Editor; III. Regarding the Past and Present of Our Organization; IV. From My Cultural World; V. Personalities; and VI. Interviews. Zucker writes with passion and insight on Yiddish/Jewish literary and cultural topics.
Brief description: Dr. Sheva Zucker was for 15 years (2005-2020) the executive director of the League for Yiddish and the editor of its magazine Afn Shvel. Her work has been published in various Yiddish publications, including Di Goldene Keyt, Forverts and Yugntruf. She has taught and lectured on Yiddish language, literature and culture on five continents and has taught Yiddish for many years in the Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture, currently under the auspices of Bard College and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City. For 5 years she was also the academic director of the program. She is the author of the textbooks Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vols. I & II and the editor and producer of the CD The Golden Peacock: Voice of the Yiddish Writer. She served as the director of the Naomi Kadar International Yiddish Teacher Training Seminar held in Maryland in 2013 and 2011 and in NY in 2016. Her research and translations focus mostly on women in Yiddish literature. She was, for several years, the Translation Editor of the Pakn Treger, the magazine of the National Yiddish Book Center. From 2012 to 2014 she published a blog, "Candles of Song: Yiddish Poems about Mothers." She was born in Winnipeg, Canada and currently resides in New York City.
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"The essays gathered in this volume convey their author's extraordinary energy and passionate commitment to the continuity of Yiddish language and culture. Written in a Yiddish that is lucid and witty, they highlight the importance of her lifelong work in the field of Yiddish and beat with the heart of a contemporary, living language." Kathryn Hellerstein, Professor of Yiddish and Director of the Jewish Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania