JMI Ot Azoy! Faculty 2008
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Heather Valencia, formerly a lecturer in German, is now an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Stirling . She began studying Yiddish in the mid 1980s and in 1991 completed a doctoral thesis on the poetry of Abraham Sutzkever. She has taught on Yiddish summer programmes in Oxford , Germany and Sweden , and has regular classes in Glasgow and Edinburgh. She has published on Abraham Sutzkever, Yiddish writers in WeimarGermany, and Yiddish writing in London . She edited a bilingual edition of the London Yiddish play The King of Lampedusa and has produced an anthology of Yiddish literature for students entitled Mit groys fargenign / With Great Pleasure. Her English translation of Esther Singer Kreitman's novel Diamonds is due to appear shortly.

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