Khane-Faygl Turtletaub
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of German, (Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University)
Office: Kresge 2-510
Phone: 847-467-0574
E-mail: a-turtletaub@northwestern.edu
Dr. Khane-Faygl (Anita) Turtletaub has lectured widely on Yiddish, Jewish literary and cultural figures, women’s issues and Jewish humor. She has taught Yiddish for more than 30 years. An accomplished Yiddish translator, with a specialty in old handwritings, she founded and directed The Society for Yiddish Culture and has published five Yiddish short stories, one of which was included in the anthology of Yiddish writers entitled Vidervuks (Regrowth). She edited and was featured in Breaking Ground by Bea Michaels.
Dr. Turtletaub's book of original "Yiddish Songs for Children" and accompanying CD
just came out this October and "Hans Christian Andersen Stories in Yiddish," which she edited and updated should be out soon.
