https://www.rachellegrossman.com/home daily 1.0 2025-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60151c00a0646e0baa8dfa44/1628015858855-V5WNVRX1P3EB86UNN3DB/DSC00787.jpg Home - I am an assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. My work focuses on the intersection of Yiddish and its transnational connections with other literatures, languages, and cultures. In my research, I develop a geopolitical approach to literature, focusing especially on the transformation of literary centers and peripheries in the postwar period. I am also interested in technologies of print and how they impact literature as material culture. https://www.rachellegrossman.com/yidkidlit daily 0.75 2021-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60151c00a0646e0baa8dfa44/1614897405704-DEV7TM3GFHO4E57HGDZ2/Screen+Shot+2020-12-12+at+11.37.45+PM.png Yiddish Children's Literature “Boys can do housework, too” from Ida Merżan’s manual, Kinder-dertsiung [Child Rearing] (1955) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60151c00a0646e0baa8dfa44/1614897163031-9WMS3U7STA0CS9KM75CE/Screen+Shot+2020-11-02+at+1.04.53+PM.png Yiddish Children's Literature Ber Sarin’s Kh’vel Aykh Dertseyln a Mayse [I’ll Tell You A Story] (1958) https://www.rachellegrossman.com/postwaryiddish daily 0.75 2022-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60151c00a0646e0baa8dfa44/a34d5fe0-7aae-4bc4-805e-98478323e8fb/30361FE2-E622-4979-88D8-30F1DF2BA27E.jpg Postwar Yiddish My dissertation addresses the transformation of Yiddish literature in response to the destruction and upheaval of the Holocaust. Analyzing the activities of Yiddish presses in the Polish People’s Republic (PRL) and in Argentina, I focus on how Yiddish cultural actors competed over the legacy of “Polish Jewry” between 1945-84. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60151c00a0646e0baa8dfa44/1614899475745-DWIC1XODN677OYVPG82S/Screen+Shot+2020-10-20+at+2.46.13+PM.png Postwar Yiddish - In gathering and disseminating literature under new imprints, those at the helm of the presses in Poland and Argentina authoritatively asserted new literary centers and peripheries, wrestling over the changing contours of global Yiddish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60151c00a0646e0baa8dfa44/1614899394978-KIHO4A5YR8R2XINR6RMQ/Lublin+mural.JPG Postwar Yiddish - After a violent rupture with the past, what stories do people tell about themselves and why? 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