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Invited talks

2022

2021

  • Nisht mir, nisht dir: The Evolution of New York Hasidic Yiddish. (in Yiddish). Invited speaker at the 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. Invited panelist at 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. Invited speaker at 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. Invited speaker at Teachers College Columbia University (NY). (June)

Papers, Workshops & Posters

2023 (forthcoming)

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

2022

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

2021

2021

  • Unterland Yiddish Vowels. Paper presented at the Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California (virtual). (January) SLIDES_INTRO,

2020

  • Bilingual Effects on New York Hasidic Yiddish Vowels. Paper presented at the Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana. (January) SLIDES

2019

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

2018

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

2017

  • OTD Narratives in American Jewish Culture and Modern Jewish Thought. Roundtable discussant at Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Washington D.C. (December)
  • The Linguistic Marginalization of Hasidic Yiddish. Paper presented at Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Washington D.C. (December) SLIDES
  • Contrastive Length in New York Hasidic Yiddish Vowels. Paper presented at 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 presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 46, Madison (WI). (November)
  • Convergence of Hasidic Yiddish and English vowels under the influence of contact. Paper presented at the 17th Congress of Jewish Studies. Jerusalem, Israel. (August)

2016

  • Investigating Hasidic Identity from the Inside Out. Paper presented at Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), San Diego (CA). (December)
  • Social and linguistic predictors of case syncretism in New York Hasidic Yiddish. Paper presented at 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. Paper presented at CIRCL (Connecting Innovative Research in CUNY Linguistics). The Graduate Center at CUNY, New York (NY). (November)
  • Grammaticalized Affect: Hasidic Yiddish optional reflexive pronouns. Research presented at 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. Presentation at 10th 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. Paper presented at American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Dallas (TX). (March)
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