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Prof. Jeffrey Shandler featured on the podcast What's New, What's Next? Jewish Studies in the Time of Pandemic

  • Colorful painting of a Jewish wedding with dancers circling a bride and groom beneath a blue chuppah, set outdoors with gravestones in the foreground

  • Episode 5: Epidemics in Yiddish Literature

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    Professor Jeffrey Shandler dedicates his lecture to Joseph Opatoshu’s short story on the black wedding ceremony.

    * Image: Mayer Kirshenblatt, "The Black Wedding in the Cemetery," with permission of Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett