Looking for Yiddishland: rediscovery of Galicia in Interwar Yiddish Travelogues

The European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center and the Judaic Studies Program present Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets, Associate Professor, Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv), on “Looking for Yiddishland: rediscovery of Galicia in Interwar Yiddish Travelogues”
Moderated by Marci Shore, Professor of History, Yale University
Lunch at 12:30pm ET, talk at 1:00pm ET
Location: Judaic Studies Reading & Reference Room (Rm 335b, 3rd Fl), Sterling Memorial Library
Part of the European & Russian Studies Community Lunch Seminars
Bio:
Associate Professor at Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv), coordinator of the Jewish Studies program and researcher at the Center for Urban History (Lviv). Vladyslava received PhD in history in 2017 from Jagiellonian University. Vladyslava was an external collegiate at the Doktoratskolleg Galizien program (University of Vienna) in 2013-2016, fellow of the Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations (March-May 2016), fulbright Scholar Fellow (2018-2019), Northwestern University, Chicago. Currently a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois Chicago, where she teaches history of Ukraine. The research interests include Jewish social history, Ukrainian-Jewish relations, Yiddish literature.