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Join Ilan Stavans at Jewish Community Library, where he’ll discuss the new anthology he co-edited with fellow scholar Josh Lambert. Out on January 21, How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish explores the rich interplay of Yiddish and American culture, from the Lower East Side to Buenos Aires. It takes deep dives into cuisine, language, popular culture, revealing more than a century of linguistic and cultural exchange. This event is co-presented by KlezCalifornia and the Yiddish Book Center.

When: Wednesday, January 22, 7 PM–8:30 PM

Where: Jewish Community Library (San Francisco, CA)

Ilan Stavans is the Publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include On Borrowed Words, Spanglish, Dictionary Days, The Disappearance, and A Critic’s Journey. He has edited The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, the three-volume set Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, among dozens of other volumes. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Chile’s Presidential Medal, the International Latino Book Award, and the Jewish Book Award. Stavans’s work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted to the stage and screen. A cofounder of the Great Books Summer Program at Amherst, Stanford, Chicago, Oxford, and Dublin, he is the host of the NPR podcast "In Contrast.”

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