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Yuri Vedenyapin
Semitic Museum
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

Vanserg Rm. 122
617-496-2315
617-496-8904
vedenyap@fas.harvard.edu
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Yuri Vedenyapin grew up in Moscow, where he studied acting at the Schepkin Theater School and Jewish philology at the Maimonides Classical Academy. He received his B.A. from Harvard and subsequently entered the graduate program in Yiddish studies at Columbia University, receiving his M.A. in 2006. His interests in Yiddish are wide-ranging and include old and modern Yiddish literature, East European Jewish folklore, and the history of Yiddish dialects and stylistic standards. He is particularly devoted to oral sources, and much of his research has drawn on his interviews with Yiddish writers, actors, and members of Hasidic communities. He has taught Yiddish at Columbia University, Moscow State University, and the Yiddish summer program in Warsaw, Poland. In addition to his academic pursuits, he performs songs in Yiddish, Russian, and Polish.