Shandler, Jeffrey

Mailing Address: 12 College Avenue

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Research Interests

Yiddish

 

Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age

Shtetl

Jews, God and Videotape

Adventures in Yiddishland

While America Watches

• Jewish memory practices, centering on remembering the Holocaust and prewar Jewish life in Eastern Europe
• Jewish cultural history, centering on the role of communications media, museums, tourism, and visual culture
• Intellectual history of Jewish Studies, especially ethnographic studies of Jewish life in Eastern Europe and America
• Digital humanities in Jewish Studies, centering on archiving, narrative, inventory as a practice of modern Jewish culture
• Yiddish language, literature and culture, centering on language and culture, translation, language learning, Yiddish after World War II

Regularly Taught Courses

• The Culture of Yiddish
• Remembering the Holocaust
• Modern Jewish Culture: Key Texts

Publications

• Yiddish: Biography of a Language (Oxford University Press, 2020).
• Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors’ Stories and New Media Practices (Stanford University Press, 2017).
• Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History (Rutgers University Press, 2014).
• Co-editor, with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, of Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory
  (Indiana University Press, 2012).
  
• Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America (New York University Press, 2009).
• Translator, of Emil and Karl, by Yankev Glatshteyn (Roaring Brook Press, 2006).
• Adventures in Yiddishland:  Postvernacular Language and Culture (University of California Press, 2005).
• Co-author/co-editor, with J. Hoberman, of Entertaining America: Jews, Movies and Broadcasting (Princeton University Press/The Jewish Museum, New York, 2003).
• Editor of Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust (Yale University Press/YIVO Institute, 2002).
• Co-editor, with Hasia Diner and Beth S. Wenger, of Remembering the Lower East Side: American Jewish Reflections (Indiana University Press, 2000).
• While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 1999).
• Co-editor, with Dina Abramowicz, of Profiles of a Lost World: Memoirs of East European Jewish Life before World War II by Hirsz Abramowicz, trans. Eva Zeitlin Dobkin (Wayne State University Press/YIVO Institute, 1999).
• Co-author/co-editor, with Beth S. Wenger, of Encounters with the Holy Land: Place, Past and Future in American Jewish Culture (Brandeis University Press/Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania /National Museum of American Jewish History, 1997).
• Editor of The Life and Work of S. M. Dubnov: Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish History by Sophie Dubnov-Erlich, trans. Judith Vowles (Indiana University Press/YIVO Institute, 1991).

Professional Affiliations

• Rutgers University Press, co-editor (with Marcy Brink-Danan) of book series, Jewish Cultures of the World.
• American Academy for Jewish Research: Fellow, 2012 - present.
• American Jewish Historical Society: Academic Council (2001 – 2015); Executive Committee of the Academic Council (2006 – 2008).
• Association for Jewish Studies: Board of Directors, 2003-2007, 2009-present; Vice President for Publications, 2009-2011; President, 2011-2013.
• Center for Jewish History, New York, Academic Advisory Council of the (2004 – 2014); Co-chair (2006 – 2011).
• Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan Ann Arbor: Academic Advisory Council (2015 – present).
• George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention, American University of Paris: member, scientific committee (2016 – present).