ESSAYS & ARTICLES

Personal Essays

MY SON AND MY FATHER SPEAK A SECRET JEWISH LANGUAGE
Kveller
June 16, 2022
 

“First I eat snack, then I play Fußball and that’s my sipur!” 

Translation: “First I eat snack, then I play soccer and that’s my story.” 

You’d need to know three languages – English, German and Hebrew – to decipher that. [...]

BEFRIENDING LANGUAGE
The Canadian Jewish News
May 4, 2022

Without much forethought, I found myself raising a multilingual family. My partner, who hails from a tiny Bavarian town, speaks German with our two children, while I speak Hebrew. Since we live in Toronto, English is a given. Our fantasy of trilingual children hasn’t quite unfolded as imagined, however. [...]

JUST A LITTLE DROP

The Canadian Jewish News

February 19, 2019

We had just climbed into the car, Waze route calculated, toddler strapped in. I was tapping away on my iPhone, rapidly entering credit card information in the blithe manner with which my generation has grown accustomed to spending money. But this wasn’t a normal purchase, which is why I started to giggle. [...]

Academic Articles

“Opening the Dialogue,” with Amir Eshel, in The German Hebrew Dialogue: Studies of Encounter and Exchange, ed. Amir Eshel and Rachel Seelig (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017), 1-15.

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"Stuttering in Verse: Tuvia Rübner and the Art of Self-Translation," in The German-Hebrew Dialogue: Studies of Encounter and Exchange, 5-31.

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"Like A Barren Sheet of Paper: Rokhl Korn from Galician Orchards to Postwar Montreal," Prooftexts, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Fall 2014)

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"The Middleman: Ludwig Strauss's German-Hebrew Bilingualism," Prooftexts, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Winter 2013)

"Unsettling the Land: Ludwig Strauss's Journey from German Romanticism to Neoclassical Hebrew," Modern Language Notes, Vol. 128, No. 3 (April 2013)

"A Yiddish Bard in Berlin: Moyshe Kulbak and the Flourishing of Yiddish Poetry in Exile," The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 102, No. 1 (Winter 2012)

Translations 

Tehila Hakimi, "Sacred and Profane," and "Give Me One Day," co-translated with Adam Seelig, The Poetry Review, Vol 109, No 3 (Autumn 2019)

Tal Hever-Chybowski, “World Hebrew,” In Geveb, April 30, 2018 

Mati Shemoelof, “The Berlin Prize for Hebrew Literature” (excerpt from a novel in progress), in The German-Hebrew Dialogue, 253-263. 

J.L. Gordon, “The Tip of the Yod,” in The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History, Third Edition, ed. Paul R. Mendes-Flohr and Yehuda Reinharz (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 362-65.