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Kathryn Hellerstein: Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize

The Modern Language Association of America has awarded Kathryn Hellerstein, associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, with the eighth Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies.

Dr. Hellerstein’s translation, A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987, was chosen for the award, which is awarded each even-numbered year to either an outstanding translation of a Yiddish literary work or an outstanding scholarly work in English in the field of Yiddish.

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