Eva Lokey Lecture in Yiddish Studies
From left to right: The Eva Chernov Lokey Professor of Jewish Studies Gabriella Safran; the first annual Eva Lokey Lecture Series speaker, Professor Sam Spinner...
The Eva Lokey Lecture in Yiddish Studies is supported by the Eva Lokey Yiddish Lecture Fund established in 2002. The series is designed to highlight the outstanding work of rising scholars in the field of Yiddish Studies. Our inaugural lecture was delivered by Sam Spinner (Johns Hopkins University) in 2021.
Past Events
Sunny Yudkoff, Associate Professor of German and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin will deliver this year's Eva Lokey Lecture in Yiddish Studies.
Sam Spinner (Johns Hopkins University) will deliver the inaugural Eva Lokey Lecture in Yiddish Studies on "Jewish Primitivism: Theories of Primitive Art and Der Nister's Stories."