Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
My research centres on cultural responses to migration and genocide. My specific scholarly interests are:
- Language revitalization, specifically in the context of Yiddish civilization and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries;
- Representations of the Holocaust and its aftermath, in particular in literature, film, theatre and music;
- Jewish migrant and ethnic communities in a comparative framework, both with other groups and across geographies.
My publications examine different facets of the Jewish experience through the lenses of literature, theatre, film, education, and organizational life. My forthcoming monograph, Cultural Transmission After Catastrophe: Journeys of Yiddish Revitalization (in press), examines the mechanisms around how a lesser-spoken language and culture can be transmited across multiple generations into the digital age. My edited volume, Yiddish in the New Millennium, also in press, showcases diverse new initiatives in areas such as performance, teaching and social media from around the world.
My current project on New Yiddish Cinema, which examines an emerging 21st century body of film produced largely by and for non-speakers of the language, bridges the areas of Jewish Studies, Genocide Studies, language revitalization and film translation. In my new position as director of the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, I am also involved with a new project to investigates aspets of Jewish cultural life in Melbourne.
Education/Academic qualification
Yiddish Studies/Germanic Languages, MA-PhD, Columbia University
Jewish Studies, BA, McGill University
Research area keywords
- Yiddish Studies
- Diaspora film
- Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- Canadian Studies
- Australian History
Network
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Projects
- 3 Finished
Cultural Transmission After Catastrophe: Yiddish in Canada after the Holocaust
1/04/13 → 30/03/18
Project: Research
The Holocaust in the Canadian Yiddish Press: The Keneder Adler (Canadian Jewish Eagle), 1939-1945
1/04/08 → 30/03/11
Project: Research
Research Output
The Keneder Adler and Yiddish Community Life in Montreal, 1944
Margolis, R., 2019, In : Canadian Jewish Studies. 27, p. 115-124 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
File
Across the Border: Canadian-Jewish Writing
Margolis, R., 2016, The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature. Wirth-Nesher, H. (ed.). New York NY USA: Cambridge University Press, p. 432-448 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
Open Access
File
New Yiddish Film and the Transvernacular
Margolis, R., Dec 2016, In : In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. p. 1-30 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
File
Remaining alive in silence? Melekh Ravitch as Yiddish Catalyst: Montreal, 1941-1954
Margolis, R., 2016, In : East European Jewish affairs. 46, 2, p. 192-209 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Remembering Two of Montreal’s Yiddish Women Poets: Esther Segal and Ida Maza
Margolis, R., 2015, Women Writers of Yiddish Literature: Critical Essays. Horowitz, R. (ed.). Jefferson NC USA: McFarland & Company, Inc., p. 230-248 22 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other › peer-review
Prizes
Faculty of Arts Young Researcher of the Year Award
Rebecca Margolis (Recipient), 1 May 2011
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award
Rebecca Margolis (Recipient), 1 Nov 2012
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award
Rebecca Margolis (Recipient), 1 Jun 2013
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
Canadian Holocaust Literature
Rebecca Margolis (Organiser), Seymour Mayne (Organiser), Ruth Panofsky (Organiser)27 Oct 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
Yiddish in the New Millennium
Rebecca Margolis (Organiser)5 Nov 2016
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
Canadian Jewish Studies (Journal)
Rebecca Margolis (Editor in chief)1 Jun 2009 → 1 Jun 2011
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility