{"id":1685,"date":"2023-05-22T12:46:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T17:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/yiddish-stage\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2023-05-22T12:46:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T17:46:06","slug":"jessica-kirzane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/yiddish-stage\/jessica-kirzane\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Kirzane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Jessica Kirzane is the Lecturer in Yiddish at the University of Chicago. She earned her PhD in Yiddish Studies from Columbia University in 2017, where her dissertation focused on interethnic romance in Jewish American fiction in Yiddish and English in the early twentieth century. Jessica was a 2017 Translation Fellow and an 2018 Pedagogy Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center and is a former editor and contributor for the Teach Great Jewish Books website of the Yiddish Book Center. Jessica\u2019s work has appeared in the&nbsp;<em>Journal of Jewish Identities<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Zutot<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives in Sexuality<\/em>&nbsp;(CCAR Press, 2014) and her translations have been published in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/jewishfiction.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">jewishfiction.net<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>Columbia Journal,&nbsp;<\/em><em>Pakn Treger, Your Impossible Voice,&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>Queen Mob\u2019s Teahouse<\/em>. She is the translator of Miriam Karpilove\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/press.syr.edu\/supressbooks\/2512\/diary-of-a-lonely-girl-or-the-battle-against-free-love\/\"><em>Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle Against Free Love&nbsp;<\/em>(Syracuse UP, 2019)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/press.syr.edu\/supressbooks\/2512\/diary-of-a-lonely-girl-or-the-battle-against-free-love\/\"><\/a>. Jessica is the Editor-in-Chief for&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/ingeveb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Kirzane is the Assistant Instructional Professor of Yiddish at the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jessica Kirzane - Digital Yiddish Theatre Project<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/yiddish-stage\/jessica-kirzane\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jessica Kirzane\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jessica Kirzane is the Assistant Instructional Professor of Yiddish at the University of Chicago.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/yiddish-stage\/jessica-kirzane\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Digital Yiddish Theatre Project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-22T17:46:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/yiddish-stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/562\/2023\/05\/headshot-Kirzane.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"streich@uwm.edu\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"streich@uwm.edu\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/yiddish-stage\\\/jessica-kirzane\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/yiddish-stage\\\/jessica-kirzane\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"streich@uwm.edu\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/yiddish-stage\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/acb308ee9146d2d003cc0dfb2a5f08f9\"},\"headline\":\"Jessica Kirzane\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-22T17:46:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/yiddish-stage\\\/jessica-kirzane\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":169,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/yiddish-stage\\\/jessica-kirzane\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/yiddish-stage\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/562\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/headshot-Kirzane.webp\",\"articleSection\":[\"Authors\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/yiddish-stage\\\/jessica-kirzane\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/yiddish-stage\\\/jessica-kirzane\\\/\",\"name\":\"Jessica Kirzane - 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