Yael Levy
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yael Levi is a historian of modern Yiddish culture and American Jewish history. She received her Ph.D. in History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is an adjunct lecturer of Yiddish culture. Her forthcoming book is titled From the Cellar to the Top Floor: Yiddish Press in the United States, 1870–1900 (Magness University Press, 2023). Recently she published The Spirit that Materials Bear: Selected Poems, A Bilingual Edition of Devorah Fogel’s Poetry and Montages (Jerusalem 2022). As a Starr Fellow, she will work on a monograph on the phenomenon of suicide among East-European Jewish immigrants in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Her articles have appeared in the Jewish Quarterly Review and American Jewish History, among others.