On March 31, Postdoctoral Research Associate Chaya Nove participated in a panel discussion on “The Future of Yiddish” at Baruch College’s Sandra K. Wasserman Jewish Studies Center, alongside fellow scholars Justin Cammy, Debra Caplan, Alyssa Quint, Miriam Udel, and Sheva Zucker. The roundtable explored the resurgence of Yiddish in academic and community settings and its continued use as a vernacular in Hasidic communities.

Days later, on April 2, Chaya presented at Harvard’s “Transmitting Indigenous, Vulnerable, and Endangered Languages” symposium, moderated by Harvard’s Yiddish Preceptor Sara Feldman. Her talk, "In the ways of our forebears": Sustaining Yiddish in postwar Hasidic New York, highlighted community-led strategies implemented by Hasidic leaders after WWII that successfully preserved Yiddish as a daily language in their communities, even as it was declining elsewhere. The Harvard event also featured scholars Wilfried Kuugauraq Zibell discussing Inupiat and Yiddish connections, and Américo Mendoza-Mori presenting on Quechua language preservation.