The Miles Nadal JCC and the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards proudly present: A virtual Meet the Author Event Featuring Rebecca Margolis, 2023 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards winner

Author and Yiddish scholar Rebecca Margolis discusses her recent award-winning publication Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission with Canadian Jewish Literary Awards Chair Edward Trapunski. Learn about Rebecca’s research, including the rise of post-war Yiddishism, its contemporary developments, and promises for the future. Co-presented by the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards. Presented in partnership with The Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies and the Committee for Yiddish. This virtual program will be recorded.

Thursday April 4 1:00-2:30pm Admission: $10.00

For registration assistance, please call 416-924-6211 x0 or email help@mnjcc.org.

Rebecca (Rivke) Margolis is a professor and Pratt Foundation Chair of Jewish Civilisation at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University. Her research focuses on Yiddish culture, notably New Yiddish Cinema. She is the author of Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Culture in Montreal, 1905-1945 and Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission. Her current research investigates the production of twenty-first century fiction film and television with Yiddish dialogue and her book, The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen: Dybbuks, Demons and Haunted Jewish Pasts, is in press. She is currently working on a study of the trope of Yiddish as funny on American Television, with her most recent article “Oy with the Poodles Already!': Yiddishisms and Non-Jewish Characters on American Sitcoms."

To purchase copies of Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission visit https://www.mqup.ca/yiddish-lives-on-products-9780228014447.php

For more information, please visit www.cjlawards.ca

Now celebrating its ninth year, the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards recognizes the finest books with Jewish themes and subjects by Canadian authors in a variety of genres. The Canadian Jewish Literary Awards, including the Irving Abella Award, are judged by an independent jury, who this year have selected winners in the categories of fiction, biography/memoir, poetry, history, Jewish Thought and Culture, Yiddish, scholarship, Holocaust, and books for children and youth, as well as two special awards. This year’s award winners represent all parts of Canada and the world. They share their talents and insights in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Nova Scotia, Hamilton, Boston, Texas, Israel, and Australia. The Awards are administered through York University’s Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies. For more information, please visit www.cjlawards.ca The Committee for Yiddish was created in the early 1960's under the auspices of the Canadian Jewish Congress to coordinate, foster and promote Yiddish cultural activity in Toronto. To this day, the Committee for Yiddish continues to fulfil this goal through a variety of activities that include classes in Yiddish language and literature, theatre workshops, concerts and lectures, and through its support of Yiddish programming by various other Toronto organizations and groups. For more information please visit http://www.committeeforyiddish.com/

The Israel & Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University is Canada's first interdisciplinary research centre in Jewish Studies. It brings together a vibrant community of scholars, teachers, and advanced students to promote cutting-edge research in the field. Since its inception in 1989, CJS has pursued a mission of not only fostering Jewish Studies research within the university but also enhancing the teaching of Jewish Studies. It is also committed to engaging the broader community and helping to prepare individuals for careers of service in professions related to Jewish Studies. CJS supports a variety of initiatives that help our students learn about the Jewish people in order to promote understanding of Jewish culture among the larger public. Its activities include visiting professorships, guest lectures, research workshops, academic symposia, public cultural events, student scholarships and prizes, and the building of a Jewish Studies reference and research collection. It also administers York's Graduate Diploma in Jewish Studies and the Jewish Teacher Education Program, which combines a BA with a BEd, as well as works collaboratively with York's B.A. Program in Jewish Studies. For more information, visit https://www.yorku.ca/cjs/about-the-centre/