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Between Old and New: The Cultural Avant-Garde | Dr. Yael Levi

While some saw Yiddish as a humble folk language, a generation of radical writers and artists transformed it into a vehicle for cutting-edge modernist experimentation. This lecture explores the paradox at the heart of Yiddish modernism: how writers like Der Nister, Devorah Fogel, and Itzik Manger created innovative literature that rivaled any European avant-garde movement. Their work proves that Yiddish was not just a language of tradition but a laboratory for literary experimentation. This series explores how Yiddish culture navigated the massive spatial and temporal upheavals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through the lens of movement and displacement, we’ll examine how Yiddish speakers created meaning while crossing oceans, borders, and generations, and how the language itself transformed in the process. The organizing principle is transit as both literal movement (immigration, trains, ships) and metaphorical transformation (linguistic change, cultural adaptation, generational shifts). Dr. Yael Levi Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry and in the Yiddish Program of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem -- For more: https://www.bac.org.il/en/videos