Dr. Samuel Spinner wins MLA Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures
Dr. Samuel Spinner, Associate Professor of Yiddish, has been awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures for his book Jewish Primitivism.
In its prize citation, the MLA selection committee writes: “Boldly taking on a loaded and fraught category of cultural and literary analysis, Samuel J. Spinner’s Jewish Primitivism offers an entirely new model of conducting multilingual comparative analysis.” The book “reinvigorates critical scrutiny of primitivism as a concept to tell a hitherto untold story of Jewish modernism, within and beyond the fault lines and permutations of the trilingualism of Hebrew, Yiddish, and German.”
Read more at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.