Keith I Weiser

Professor Keith (Kalman) Weiser is an Associate Professor in the Division of Humanities. His research focuses in the area of modern Jewish history and culture, specifically about language issues in Jewish life.

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Czernowitz at 100: the First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective. Ed. K. Weiser and J. Fogel. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010.

'A Tale of Two Pryluckis: On the Origins of the Yiddish Press in Warsaw.' Gal-Ed 22 (2009/10).

'The Yiddishist Ideology of Noah Prylucki.' Polin 21 (2009): 361-400.

'Language and Ideology: the Orthodox Orthography of Solomon Birnbaum.' Studies in Contemporary Jewry XX (2004): 275-295.

'Coming to America?: the relations between YIVO-Vilna and the Amopteyl, 1939-1940.' Choosing Yiddish: Studies on Yiddish Literature, Culture, and History. Ed. Lara Rabinovitch et al. Wayne State University Press, 2011. Forthcoming.

Jewish People, Yiddish Nation: Noah Prylucki and the Folkists In Poland. University of Toronto Press, 2010. Forthcoming.

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Professor Keith (Kalman) Weiser is an Associate Professor in the Division of Humanities. His research focuses in the area of modern Jewish history and culture, specifically about language issues in Jewish life.

Professor Keith (Kalman) Weiser graduate training focused in two areas: Yiddish language, linguistics, and culture and Jewish history. Since then, he has expanded his field of knowledge to include Holocaust and Israel Studies. His research focuses in the area of modern Jewish history and culture, specifically about language issues in Jewish life. His first book explores the rise and fall of the nationalist movement on behalf of Yiddish in Russia and Poland until WW II. His current research examines the role of refugee Eastern European Jewish scholars in creating the field of Yiddish Studies and Jewish academia in general in North America.

Degrees

PhD, Columbia University
MA, Columbia University
BA, Yale University

Research Interests:

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Czernowitz at 100: the First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective. Ed. K. Weiser and J. Fogel. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010.

'A Tale of Two Pryluckis: On the Origins of the Yiddish Press in Warsaw.' Gal-Ed 22 (2009/10).

'The Yiddishist Ideology of Noah Prylucki.' Polin 21 (2009): 361-400.

'Language and Ideology: the Orthodox Orthography of Solomon Birnbaum.' Studies in Contemporary Jewry XX (2004): 275-295.

'Coming to America?: the relations between YIVO-Vilna and the Amopteyl, 1939-1940.' Choosing Yiddish: Studies on Yiddish Literature, Culture, and History. Ed. Lara Rabinovitch et al. Wayne State University Press, 2011. Forthcoming.

Jewish People, Yiddish Nation: Noah Prylucki and the Folkists In Poland. University of Toronto Press, 2010. Forthcoming.

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