Invited talks

2023

• Forthcoming: TBD. USC Shoah Foundation: Institute for Visual History and Education. Los Angeles, California. (November)
• The Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe: Goals, Methods, and Applications. Center for Jewish Studies at University of California, Berkeley. (April)
• The Hasidic approach to language in the past and present [Keynote address, in Yiddish]. Yiddish Language Structures 3 (YiLaS3). University College London. London, England. (March) [CANCELLED DUE TO INJURY]
• Hasidic pop culture and language [Keynote panel]. Farbindungen23 “Yiddish Futures.” University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada. (February: virtual).

2022

• Le yiddish des hassidim (‘The Yiddish of the Hasidim’, in Yiddish). Maison de la culture yiddish-Bibliothèque Medem. Paris, France. (June: virtual).
• Variation and change in the acoustic correlates of a contrast in Yiddish peripheral vowels. Sociolinguistic Lab at University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. (March: virtual).
• Hasidic Yiddish. San Francisco Jewish Community Library. San Francisco, CA. (January: virtual).

2021

• Gefilte fish and sushi: Hasidic orientation and vowel change in New York Hasidic Yiddish [Keynote address]. Ada Rapoport-Albert seminar series on contemporary Hasidic Yiddish. University College London, England. (password to view video recording of this talk is available upon request) (March: virtual)

• Nisht mir, nisht dir: The Evolution of New York Hasidic Yiddish. (in Yiddish). Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. University of Toronto, Canada. (March)

2016

• Is Yiddish an Endangered Language? Hasidim Say ‘Nayn’: Cultural Boundaries and Linguistic Tensions in New York Yiddish [panelist]. Sandra K. Wasserman Jewish Studies Center Annual Conference: “Dissent and Dissension: Approaching Ultra-Orthodoxy.” Baruch College, New York (NY). (April)

2014

• Talking the Talk: Fitting in at work while staying Torah True. Second Annual Orthodox Jewish Nurses Conference, hosted by Touro College, New York (NY). (June)

2013

• Ambivalence and Nostalgia: Stance and Identity in the ‘Off the Derech’ Community. Teachers College Columbia University (NY). (June)

Papers, Workshops & Posters

2023

• Regional differences in the length contrast of Central Yiddish vowels. Paper presentation at Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. (January)

2022

• The Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe: A new resource for language research and pedagogy [Oral presentation]. Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) 54^th Annual Conference. Co-presenter: Isaac Bleaman. Boston, MA. (December)
• One of Us? Insider ethnography with Jewish communities [Roundtable discussant]. Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) 54^th Annual Conference. Boston, MA. (December)
• Pro-Yiddish activism in postwar New York Hasidic communities [Oral presentation]. Yiddish in the Heights: Exploring Yiddish Academia and Activism in Post-War New York. New York, NY. (November)
• Minimal minimal pairs: Phonetic contrast in Unterland Yiddish vowels[Oral presentation]. Methods in Dialectology XVII. Johannes Gutenberg-University. Mainz, Germany. (August)
• On the inside looking in: Conducting sociolinguistic fieldwork in Hasidic communities [Workshop participant]. One of Us? Insider Ethnography with Jewish Communities workshop. Syracuse University. Syracuse, New York. (May: virtual).

2021

• Improving vowel formant analysis in sociophonetic research using Fast Track [Workshop]. Workshop co-presented at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 49, Austin (TX) (virtual). Co-presenters: Santiago Barreda and Thomas Khettig. (October). VIDEO
• Innovation and Change in the New York Hasidic Yiddish Pronominal System [Poster]. RUEG Conference: Dynamics of Language Contact. Humboldt University, Berlin (virtual). (February) POSTER

 

• Unterland Yiddish Vowels [Oral presentation]. Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California (virtual). (January) SLIDES_INTRO.

2020

• Leveling in the Hasidic Yiddish Pronominal Paradigm [Presentation]. Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) Annual Conference. (December: virtual).Yiddish Linguistic Attitudes Across Communities [Respondent]. Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) Annual Conference. (December: virtual).

  Bilingual Effects on New York Hasidic Yiddish Vowels [Oral presentation]. Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana. (January) SLIDES

2019

• Contact Effects in New York Hasidic Yiddish Peripheral Vowels [Oral presentation]. German(ic) in language contact: Grammatical and sociolinguistic dynamics. Berlin, Germany. (July)
• Phonetic Contrast in New York Hasidic Yiddish Peripheral Vowels [Oral presentation]. International Conference Yiddish Language Structures (YiLaS) 2. Düsseldorf, Germany. (June) SLIDES

2018

• Phonetic Contrast in New York Hasidic Yiddish Peripheral Vowels [Oral presentation]. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 47, New York (NY). (November)
• Phonetic Contrast in Unterland Yiddish Long-short Vowels Pairs [Oral presentation]. A Scientific Conference on Yiddish in Czernowitz (Chernivtsi), Ukraine. (August)

2017

• OTD Narratives in American Jewish Culture and Modern Jewish Thought [Roundtable discussant]. Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Washington D.C. (December)
• The Linguistic Marginalization of Hasidic Yiddish [Oral presentation]. Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Washington D.C. (December) SLIDES
• Contrastive Length in New York Hasidic Yiddish Vowels [Oral presentation]. CIRCL (Connecting Innovative Research in CUNY Linguistics). The Graduate Center at CUNY, New York (NY). (November)
• Social predictors of Case syncretism in New York Hasidic Yiddish [Poster]. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 46, Madison (WI). (November)
• Convergence of Hasidic Yiddish and English vowels under the influence of contact [Oral presentation]. 17^th Congress of Jewish Studies. Jerusalem, Israel. (August)

2016

• Investigating Hasidic Identity from the Inside Out [Oral presentation]. Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), San Diego (CA). (December)
• Social and linguistic predictors of case syncretism in New York Hasidic Yiddish [Oral presentation]. Yiddish in the New Millennium: A Symposium on New Yiddish Language and Culture, University of Ottawa (CAN). (November)
• There goes the dative: social and linguistic predictors of case syncretism in contemporary Hasidic Yiddish [Oral presentation]. CIRCL (Connecting Innovative Research in CUNY Linguistics). The Graduate Center at CUNY, New York (NY). (November)
• Grammaticalized Affect: Hasidic Yiddish optional reflexive pronouns [Oral presentation]. CIRCL (Connecting Innovative Research in CUNY Linguistics). The Graduate Center at CUNY, New York (NY). (March)

2105

• Member of the Mishpacha: Jon Stewart’s Jewish English Mishegas [Oral presentation]. 10^th Annual Showcasing Quirky and Unusual Ideas in Development (SQUID), The Graduate Center at CUNY, New York (NY). (May)

2013

• Ambivalence and Nostalgia: Stance and Identity in the ‘Off the Derech’ Community [Oral presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Dallas (TX). (March)