Education

1998-1999

Student at the Melton Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Senior Educators Program

1997-

Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at ELTE University, Budapest

1997, July

Out of the Ghetto: Jewish Tradition in Crisis - summer program at the Central European University, Budapest

1994-1995

M.A. Yiddish Studies, Columbia University, New York. Thesis:
Yiddish Proverbs in Magyar Zsidó Szemle (Hungarian Jewish Review).
An Empirical Study

1991, August

Oxford Summer Programme in Yiddish Language and Literature

1984-1990

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]

1980-1984

Móricz Zsigmond High School

Employment

2009-2010

On Leave from U of M. Working on various projects, including creating a website for the Weinreich Collection at the University of Michigan and translating

2006, Summer

Teaching Yiddish Literature at the Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture at NYU & YIVO, New York

2005, Summer

Teaching Yiddish Literature at the Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture at NYU & YIVO, New York

2001---

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)

1999-2001

Lecturer in Yiddish and Hungarian at Stanford University; teaching courses in Yiddish and Hungarian language

1999, 2000, 2001, Summer

Teaching an Intensive Elementary Yiddish Course at the University of Washington, Seattle

1998, Summer

Teaching Yiddish Literature in Translation and Yiddish Conversation at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon

1995-1998

Teaching Yiddish language at ELTE University;
Teaching Yiddish and English language at the Teachers' Training College of the Jewish Theological Seminary of Hungary
Oral history and ethnographic work with elderly Hungarian Yiddish speakers

1992-1993

Freelance language teacher, translator, interpreter and researcher

1991-1992

Center for Jewish Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, scholarly secretary

1990-1991

Institute of Sociology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, scholarly secretary

1989-1990

Városmajori High School, Budapest; teaching English and German language

Grants, Scholarships, Prizes

2008

GMA Grant (LRC at U of M) to support teaching Yiddish via video conferencing

2007

TTI (Teaching with Technology Institute) Grant (CRLT, U of M)

2005

A grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture to translate the book Budapesti Napló by Borbála Szabó from Hungarian into English

2003

Lecturers’ Professional Development Grant (CRLT, U of M)

1999

Recipient of the Dovid Hofshteyn Prize for Yiddish Literature

1997-1998

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

1997-1998

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

1993, June-December

Ronald S. Lauder Fellow at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York

Lectures, Conferences

2009, September

Yiddish Culture in Central Europe – Lecture at Pázmány Péter University, Hungary

1996, May

Lecture given at Yahalom Jewish Free University, Budapest: Der sharbn iberlebt dem top - Hungarian Yiddish Proverbs

1996, March

Paper given on Tradition Originating in the Present - A Galician badkhen in New York at the First Hungarian Conference on Jewish Music, Budapest

1995, April

Paper given on Yiddish Folklore Materials in Magyar Zsido Szemle at the Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies: The Next Wave Conference, Columbus, Ohio