JMI Ot Azoy! Faculty 2009
modified 3 February 2009
Heather Valencia, formerly a lecturer in German, is now an Honorary
Research Fellow at the University of Stirling . She bega
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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 in 2009.
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