Education
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1998-1999
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Student at the Melton
Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Senior Educators Program
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1997-
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Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at ELTE
University, Budapest
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1997, July
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Out of the Ghetto: Jewish Tradition in
Crisis - summer program at the Central European University,
Budapest
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1994-1995
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M.A. Yiddish Studies, Columbia University, New
York. Thesis:
Yiddish Proverbs in Magyar Zsidó
Szemle (Hungarian Jewish Review).
An Empirical Study
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1991, August
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Oxford Summer Programme in Yiddish Language and
Literature
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1984-1990
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M.A. English and German at ELTE University,
Faculty of Arts.
Thesis: Die
Freinet-Pädagogik und ihre Anwendung im Sprachunterricht in
Ungarn [The Freinet Pedagogy and Its Usage in Language Teaching in
Hungary]
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1980-1984
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Móricz Zsigmond High School, Budapest, Hungary
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Employment
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2011, Summer
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Teaching Yiddish Language at Tel Aviv
University’s Summer Program
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2010 October -
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Teaching Yiddish Language at Beit Sholem
Aleichem, Tel Aviv
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2010, Summer
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Teaching Yiddish Literature at the Uriel
Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture at
NYU & YIVO, New York
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2006, Summer
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Teaching Yiddish Literature at the Uriel
Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture at
NYU & YIVO, New York
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2005, Summer
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Teaching Yiddish Literature at the Uriel
Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture at
NYU & YIVO, New York
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2001-2010
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Lecturer in Yiddish Language and Literature,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; teaching courses in Yiddish
Language (three levels) and Yiddish Literature and Folklore (in
English translation)
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1999-2001
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Lecturer in Yiddish and Hungarian at Stanford
University; teaching courses in Yiddish and Hungarian language
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1999, 2000, 2001, Summer
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Teaching an
Intensive Elementary Yiddish Course at the University of
Washington, Seattle
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1998, Summer
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Teaching Yiddish Literature in Translation and
Yiddish Conversation at Portland State University, Portland,
Oregon
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1995-1998
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Teaching Yiddish language at ELTE University;
Teaching Yiddish
and English language at the Teachers' Training College of the
Jewish Theological Seminary of Hungary
Cataloger at the Library of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of Hungary
Oral history and ethnographic
work with elderly Hungarian Yiddish speakers
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1992-1993
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Freelance language teacher, translator,
interpreter and researcher
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1991-1992
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Center for Jewish Studies at the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences, scholarly secretary
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1990-1991
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Institute of Sociology at the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences, scholarly secretary
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1989-1990
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Városmajori High School, Budapest; teaching
English and German language
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Grants,
Scholarships, Prizes
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2008
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GMA Grant (LRC at U of M) to
support teaching Yiddish via video conferencing
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2007
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TTI (Teaching with
Technology Institute) Grant (CRLT, U of
M)
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2005
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A grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish
Culture to translate the book Budapesti Napló
by Borbála Szabó from Hungarian into English
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2003
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Lecturers’
Professional Development Grant (CRLT, U
of M)
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1999
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Recipient of the Dovid Hofshteyn Prize for
Yiddish Literature
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1997-1998
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A grant from the Sonia and Aron Fishman
Foundation to run a Yiddish club for elderly native Yiddish
speakers in Budapest and to teach a Yiddish course for teachers of
the Seminary as well as the parents of the students
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1997-1998
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A grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish
Culture to compile and translate a selection of the works of Y.L.
Perets from Yiddish into Hungarian
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1993, June-December
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Ronald S. Lauder Fellow at the YIVO Institute
for Jewish Research, New York
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Lectures,
Conferences
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2010, February
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Yiddish Proverbs – Lecture at Beit Nagler,
Haifa
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2009, September
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Yiddish Culture in Central Europe – Lecture
at Pázmány University, Hungary
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1996, May
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Lecture given at Yahalom Jewish Free
University, Budapest: Der sharbn iberlebt dem top -
Hungarian Yiddish Proverbs
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1996, March
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Paper given on Tradition Originating in the
Present - A Galician badkhen in New York at the First Hungarian
Conference on Jewish Music, Budapest
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1995, April
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Paper given on Yiddish Folklore Materials in
Magyar Zsidó Szemle
at the Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies: The Next Wave Conference,
Columbus, Ohio
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