Joshua Price
Bio
Joshua Price teaches Yiddish language and literature. He received his Ph.D. in Yiddish Studies at Columbia University (2020), with a dissertation on the translation of world literature into Yiddish in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work has appeared in In geveb, Jews and Slavs, and Afn shvel. He is currently at work on a study of Yiddish and/as world literature for the forthcoming edited volume Cambridge History of Yiddish Literature.
Recent Publications
“Fartaytsht un eyropeizirt? Translation and the Normalization of the Yiddish Literature in the Wake of Czernowitz,” Jews and Slavs 26 (2020): 77-92.
“On Two Yiddish Translations of Les mystères de Paris,” Yiddish and Translation Conference, INALCO and Medem, August 2021.
Translation of selected poems by Osher Shvartsman, In geveb, March 2022.
Chaim Zhitlowsky’s “On the Worth of Translations,” In geveb, August 2015.
“Kekhol haliteraturn: Khayim Zhitlovski un di yidish(istish)e iberzetsung in teorye un praktik,” Afn shvel 366-7 (Winter-Spring 2015): 8-12.