February 2021

Following the successful launch of the Mellon-Sawyer seminar series on February 4th, Professor Mikhail Krutikov published an essay that surveys the fascinating events of Jewish Multilingualism in the Midwest: Yiddish Translations of Urban Experience in the Yiddish language version of the Jewish news publication Forward. Titled “Young Scholars Discover Yiddish  Literature in the American Midwest,” the […]

As part of the first Mellon-Sawyer seminar in the series Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest, Mikhl Yashinsky’s fascinating performance “Ezra Korman, Poet of my City” drew more than 90 attendees and provided us with a stirring and thought-provoking testament to the enduring legacy and vibrancy of the midwest’s multilingual cultural ambient. Mikhl Yashinsky

The first installment of the Mellon-Sawyer seminar series, Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest, took place on February 4-5, 2021. The seminar, titled Jewish Multilingualism in the Midwest: Yiddish Translations of Urban Experience, was coordinated by Maya Barzilai (University of Michigan), and brought together scholars of Jewish culture and history, hailing from various Midwestern institutions. The seminar

Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Translation Studies Marlon James Sales was interviewed by BBC Mundo, the Spanish desk of the BBC, for a feature story on the history of the Spanish language in the Philippines. The article explores why Spanish is not spoken as a major language in the Philippines despite having been a