Mocking the "Polish" Grandma: Growing Up with Anti-Diasporic Sentiment
EX518_3217 Tal Hever-Chybowski, historian and teacher of Yiddish and director of the Paris Yiddish Center Medem Library, recounts how his Israeli family's anti-Diasporic attitudes found expression in...
View ArticleBecoming "The Jew": Experiencing Philo and Anti-semitism
EX518_3218 Tal Hever-Chybowski, historian and teacher of Yiddish and director of the Paris Yiddish Center Medem Library, explains that, as an Israeli immigrant in Germany, anti-semitism (a different...
View ArticleParis: My Mecca of Yiddish
EX518_3219 Tal Hever-Chybowski, historian and teacher of Yiddish and director of the Paris Yiddish Center Medem Library, speaks with excitement about the flourishing Yiddish scene in Paris, which he...
View ArticleOnly With Superlatives Can One Describe Niborski
EX518_3220 Tal Hever-Chybowski, historian and teacher of Yiddish and director of the Paris Yiddish Center Medem Library, offers high praise for his teacher and mentor Yitzkhok Niborski, who, in...
View ArticleDeconstructing the Notion of a "Dead Language"
EX518_3221 Tal Hever-Chybowski, historian and teacher of Yiddish and director of the Paris Yiddish Center Medem Library, responds to the question of whether there is a Yiddish revival by criticizing...
View ArticleYiddish as an Answer to Questions of Jewish Identity
EX518_3222 Tal Hever-Chybowski, historian and teacher of Yiddish and director of the Paris Yiddish Center Medem Library, suggests one reason for a contemporary surge of interest in Yiddish is the...
View ArticleComing Back to the Past to Create the Future
EX518_3223 Tal Hever-Chybowski, historian and teacher of Yiddish and director of the Paris Yiddish Center Medem Library, speaks about the need to return to and explore the histories of Yiddish and...
View ArticleAdvice for Serious Students of Yiddish
EX518_3224 Tal Hever-Chybowski, historian and teacher of Yiddish and director of the Paris Yiddish Center Medem Library, offers some advice to students of Yiddish: don't stop there.More from this...
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