Invited talks
2022
- Le yiddish des hassidim (‘The Yiddish of the Hasidim’, in Yiddish). Maison de la culture yiddish-Bibliothèque Medem. Paris, France. (virtual).
- Variation and change in the acoustic correlates of a contrast in Yiddish peripheral vowels. Sociolinguistic Lab at University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. (virtual).
- Hasidic Yiddish. San Francisco Jewish Community Library. San Francisco, CA. (virtual).
2021
- Gefilte fish and sushi: Hasidic orientation and vowel change in New York Hasidic Yiddish. Keynote address at the 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)
- 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
- Improving vowel formant analysis in sociophonetic research using Fast Track. Workshop co-presented at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 49, Austin (TX) (virtual). Co-presenters: Santiago Barreda and Thomas Khettig. VIDEO
- Innovation and Change in the New York Hasidic Yiddish Pronominal System. Poster presented at the RUEG Conference: Dynamics of Language Contact. Humboldt University, Berlin (virtual). (February) POSTER
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)
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- 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)