Jessica Kirzane teaches all levels of Yiddish language and enjoys introducing students to a wide range of texts from Yiddish culture, including Yiddish literature written in and about Chicago. Also, she is a literary translator from Yiddish and has translated three books by Yiddish novelist Miriam Karpilove: Diary of a Lonely Girl (2020), Judith (2022) and A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories (2023). She is the editor-in-chief of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. Kirzane is Associate Instructional Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago.
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