He’s brilliant, controversial and provocative. Professor Dovid Katz joined us in a live online talk and audience Q&A session on 22nd July 2021 about the Past, Present and Future of Yiddish. This talk, in English, was the first edition in the return of our free lockdown Matone (gift) series of online Yiddish culture.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, NYC, based in Vilnius, Lithuania and currently in the UK, Dovid Katz is one of the world’s leading Yiddish scholars and Holocaust history advocates. He is a prolific author and engaging speaker who founded Yiddish studies at Oxford, and then later in Vilnius, where he was the professor of Yiddish for many years.
He is at work on his new Yiddish Cultural Dictionary, and teaches advanced Yiddish courses online. His website is www.DovidKatz.net and he edits DefendingHistory.com.