Eyshe Beirich
איישע בײַריך
I am a Yiddish scholar, translator, and writer living in New York City. As a professional Yiddish teacher, I have taught all levels of Yiddish at various institutions, such as Columbia University, the YIVO Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies and the University of Chicago. For four years, I served as an assistant teacher, pedagogical coordinator and full Yiddish instructor at the YIVO-Bard Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture in New York City.
I received my training in Yiddish language from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research where I completed their advanced summer program and two years of the Yiddish: The Next Level advanced training in Yiddish at the Max Weinreich Center, as well as in the Department of Germanic Languages at the University of Chicago, La maison de la culture yiddish in Paris, the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture, as well as serving as a fellow (2024-2025) in the Yiddish Book Center Yiddish Pedagogy Program.
Since 2023 I have worked as a graduate student and Yiddish instructor in the Department of Germanic Languages and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. As a scholar, my research focuses on literature of race, violence, and linguistic difference principally in Yiddish, but also in German, English, Hebrew, and Arabic. I specialize in Yiddish language and culture of Eastern Europe and the Ashkenazi diaspora, particularly its secular, literary, socialist, and Yiddishist elements.
My writing in Yiddish and English has appeared in Jewish Currents, In geveb: a Journal for Yiddish Studies, the Yiddish Forverts, Yiddish Branzhe, Afn Shvel, among other places.