Author Archives: Department of German

Yiddish in the City Virtual Internships (Ontario Jewish Archives)

Posted on March 15, 2022

Dear Yiddish Students, The iPRAKTIKUM team is pleased to announce yet another great opportunity with “Yiddish in the City”, this time with the Ontario Jewish Archives. The program identifies needs in the broader Toronto community which can be fulfilled by a University of Toronto Yiddish student. This will be an opportunity to gain professional credentials as well as connect to the local Jewish community. Your internship experience can be accredited in the form of a Co-Curricular Record (CCR) that will appear on your U of T transcript. This is a paid opportunity that will take place remotely. The Ontario Jewish Archives – OJA – is the largest repository of Jewish life in Canada. Founded in 1973, the OJA acquires, preserves and makes accessible the records that chronicle Ontario’s Jewish history. A significant portion of the OJA’s collection is in Yiddish, the language of the majority of Jewish immigrants who settled in Ontario in the early to mid-twentieth century. Students will gain valuable field experience with hands-on archival work, including describing, and translating records, and producing digital content (such as blog and social media posts) highlighting Yiddish records in the collection. Priority will be given to those students who are adept at working with ... Read More »

Erol M. Boran

Posted on March 15, 2014

Associate Professor of German, Teaching Stream Contact info erol.boran@utoronto.ca Office University of Toronto Odette Hall 309 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 3L5 Phone: 416-926-2317 Secretary: 416-926-2324 Classes 2024-2025 GER194HF Our Vampires, Ourselves GER332HF Kafka’s World GER400HF Advanced German 1 Office Hours Tue 3-4pm & Thu 1-2pm Background M.A. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg 1996 Ph.D. Ohio State University 2004 Erol Boran offers courses on German literature, language and theater, and directs the German student theater, Theater DU. He is a recipient of the Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award (2019) and the Innovate German Award by the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (2020). He recently completed the manuscript of a 1000-page German fantasy novel and is now in the process of revising it. His academic book, Die Geschichte des türkisch-deutschen Theaters und Kabaretts, was released in December 2022 with transcript Verlag. For more information, see his personal website. Book Erol M. Boran: Die Geschichte des türkisch deutschen Theaters und Kabaretts. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2022. Article Erol M. Boran: “Faces of Contemporary Turkish-German Kabarett – Probing the New Millennium.” In: Text & Presentation: Journal of the Comparative Drama Conference, Vol. 25, April 2005: 172-186. Interviews „Ein Interview mit Erol M. Boran, dem Autor der Studie ... Read More »

Josh Dittrich

Posted on September 4, 2014

Sessional Lecturer Contact info josh.dittrich@utoronto.ca Office Odette Hall 312 St. Michael’s College University of Toronto 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 3L5 Phone 416-926-2319 Fax: 416-926-2329 Secretary: 416-926-2324 Office Hours Fall 2016: Tue 1:00 - 3:00 Classes 2016-17 GER6000HF Reading German for Graduate Students Read More »