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PhD Candidate I received my MA in Yiddish Studies from the University of Toronto in 2020 and am happy to be back for more Yiddish. My dissertation focuses on the life writing of disabled Yiddish-speaking Jews in interwar Poland. I am passionate about studying Yiddish archival documents and enjoy working as a Yiddish-to-English translator and a transcriber of Yiddish oral histories. I also love to teach and facilitate and have really appreciated the chance to work with the amazing group of fellow Yiddish learners at UofT. Outside of Yiddish-related stuff, I’m into crocheting, cats, and eating (and sometimes making) baked goods. Contact eli.jany@mail.utoronto.ca Academic Background MA in Yiddish, University of Toronto, 2020 MSW, University of Toronto, 2019 Honours BSc in Biology, McMaster University, 2015 PublicationsLeshchinsky, Yankev. The Last Years of Polish Jewry, Volume 2: The Permanent Pogrom, 1935-37. Edited by Robert Brym. Translated by Robert Brym and Eli Jany, Open Book Publishers, https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0342 Leshchinsky, Yankev. The Last Years of Polish Jewry, Volume 1: At the Edge of the Abyss: Essays, 1927–33. Edited by Robert Brym. Translated by Robert Brym and Eli Jany, Open Book Publishers, www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0341 Sarah Reisen. “Three Poems.” In geveb, May 2020: Trans. Eli Jany. ConferencesPresenter, "'Nowadays I ... Read More »

Ph.D Contact rita.laszlo@mail.utoronto.ca Courses GER100Y1 Y LEC0101 Term 1 / Summer 2026 Office Hours by appointment Background Ph.D. in Germanic Studies, University of Toronto, 2026 M.A. in Germanic Studies, University of British Columbia, 2017 B.A. in Hispanic Studies and Honours in Germanic Studies, University of British Columbia, 2014 TEACHING INTERESTS German as a foreign language; Hungarian as a foreign language; Contemporary German Culture & Media; Literature & Philosophy at the Intersection of German Enlightenment and Romanticism; Literature & Philosophy: Life, Death, Meaning CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS literary representations of belief in German Romanticism and German Gothic literature; 18th, 19th, and 20th century German literature and thought, Enlightenment, Critical Theory; reading literature as philosophy; intersections of poetry and trauma; the influence of Paul Celan’s “Todesfuge” (1945) on Benjamin Hackman’s “Archie & His Gang in: The Day of Atonement” (2023) Publications / Published Translations (selected) Laszlo, Rita K. “Introducing Ágnes Heller’s “Reflections on Gullibility,”” Telos, Issue 179, 2017:33-35; doi:10.3817/0617179033 Heller, Ágnes. Trans. Laszlo, Rita K. “Reflections on Gullibility,” Telos, Issue 179, 2017:36-47; doi:10.3817/0617179036 Conferences / Presentations (selected) “The Limits and Boundaries of Clarity in Schiller’s Der Geisterseher,” (paper presentation). Graduate Research Colloquium, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, University of Toronto, Toronto, April 12, 2024. ... Read More »