Aya Elyada, "A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938" (Stanford UP, 2026)

About this episode

Aya Elyada discusses her research on the legacy of Yiddish in German-Jewish culture from 1818 to 1938.

Aya Elyada is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on German and German-Jewish cultural history, Yiddish-German encounters, and the social history of language and translation. She is the author of A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture (SUP 2026) and A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish: Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany (SUP 2012), and co-editor of German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations (Berghahn 2023). She is currently working on a DFG-funded project (in collaboration with Prof. Astrid Lembke) on Old Yiddish adaptations of German literary texts, 1400–1800. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

People in this episode

Host: Marshall Poe

Guest: Aya Elyada

Topics covered

• Yiddish culture
• German-Jewish history
• language and translation
• cultural encounters
• social history

Keywords

• Yiddish
• German-Jewish culture
• cultural history
• language
• translation
• historical research

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations, Berghahn, Stanford UP, DFG

Books & works: A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish: Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany

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