I am available for public lectures, guest talks, and workshops on topics related to Yiddish linguistics, Hasidic language and culture, and Jewish sociolinguistic history. My talks engage academic and general audiences by connecting linguistic research with questions of identity, history, and continuity. I offer lectures in either Yiddish or English.

Lecture Topics

• The Origins of Hasidic Yiddish
• Yiddish Maintenance in Postwar Hasidic Communities
• Visible Yiddish: Linguistic Landscapes of Hasidic Suburbia
• Hasidic Pop Culture and Language
• Innovation in Hasidic Yiddish
• Analyzing Language through Holocaust Testimonies
• Other topics related to Yiddish, language change, or Jewish linguistic heritage by request

Selected Past Lectures

• The Story of Hasidic Yiddish: Migration, Preservation, Innovation. Sociolinguistic Cocktail Lecture Series, University of Cologne, Germany (2025).
• New York Hasidic Yiddish: From the Mountains to the Metropolis. Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture, University of Wisconsin–Madison (2025).
• “In the Ways of Our Forebears”: Sustaining Yiddish in Postwar Hasidic New York. Transmitting Indigenous, Vulnerable, and Endangered Languages Symposium, Harvard University (2025). event page
• The Origins of Hasidic Yiddish. YUNG YIDISH WIEN / University of Vienna Summer School on Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish Language and Culture (2024).
• Constructing a Corpus of Spoken Yiddish: Linguistic Insights from Holocaust Testimonies. Sociolinguistic Lecture Series, CUNY Graduate Center (2024).
• Tsvishn traditsye un tendents: Populere kultur un shprakh banuts bay amerikaner khasidim (in Yiddish). YIVO–Bard Summer Program (2023).
• Hasidic Pop Culture and Language. Farbindungen23 “Yiddish Futures,” University of Toronto (2023).

Contact

To invite me for a lecture or collaboration, please email: chayarnove [at] gmail [dot] com