Recent work

The <foreign> element in Yiddish, conference talk on the use on the complicated nature of tagging certain parts of Yiddish texts as foreign, TEI 2024

Sachsen oder USA, Hauptsache Orient, review of Enis Maci and Mazlum Nergiz’s book on Karl May, Neues Deutschland, 2024

Pseudo-Boccaccio, Yiddish Pulp Fiction, and the Man Who Ripped Off Joyce, essay on a couple of stories by Pseudo-Boccaccio, published first in Yiddish by the Hebrew Publishing Company, then in English by Samuel Roth. Written with Maria Laurids Lazzarotti, The Public Domain Review, 2024

Papa Came Home to Sleep, translation from Yiddish of a short story by Mimi Pinzón about a girl in a Buenos Aires conventillo, In geveb, 2024

Das »ureigenste theatralische Element«, conference paper concerning automatic prop extraction from German dramas, Digital Humanities im deutschprachigen Raum, 2024

Urke Nachalnik on the Yiddish Stage, article tracing the theatrical career of Urke Nachalnik, Yiddish literature’s great thief-turned-author, In geveb, 2024

Dovid, excerpt from my current translation project, Mimi Pinzón’s Der hoyf on fentster, Yiddish in the South, 2023

Spook, translated German novel by Klabund, Snuggly Books, 2023

Reconstructing the Bibliography of a “Master Criminal”, Bibliography of Urke Nachalnik + short essay on OCR and bibliographies, In geveb, 2023

Reverse Engineering “Frembdsch,” a Fantasy-Language Radio Play, weltliteratur.net, 2023

The Powdered Corpse, translated Yiddish story by Rachel Luria, Pakn Treger, 2022

@random-forverts, a Twitter bot that posts random pieces of the Forverts from the NLI archive, 2022

Mapping Yiddishland, digital humanities project, EADH, 2021

The Dragonslayer, translated German short story by Rilke, ANMLY, 2021

mkwm, UChicago’s undergraduate journal of Jewish Studies, 2021

Alef, Beys…, translated Yiddish poetry by Fried Weininger, In geveb, 2021

Revisiting the Jewish Question, essay and translation of essay by Rilke, New Voices, 2021

“Maimonides says ‘Eat Bran Flakes,’” “The Socialist Masquerade,” etc., write-ups on results of archival research, Forverts, 2019