Dr. Magdalena Vinco
Research Assistant
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Contact details:
Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies
Landfriedstraße 12
D-69117 Heidelberg
Room: N2.07
Phone: (+49) (0) 6221 / 54-192-59
Email: Magdalena.Vinco(at)hfjs.eu
Consultation hours: by appointment
Academic career
- 03/2013 - 05/2022: Doctorate on the topic "Yiddish and Polish-language family novels after the First World War: Literary confrontations with a time of crisis" with Prof. Dr. Roland Gruschka, Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies
- 10/2006 - 2/2012: Master's degree in Jewish Studies (major and first minor subject) at the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies and Slavic Philology (Literary Studies) (second minor subject) at Heidelberg University
- Master's thesis on "The portrayal of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer in pre- and post-war literature"
Professional activities
- Since 09/2022: Research assistant at the Chair of Jewish Literatures as assistant to Prof. Dr. Roland Gruschka, Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies
- 03/2020 - 08/2022: Parental leave
- 09/2019 - 10/2019: Parental leave
- 10/2016 - 03/2020: Research assistant in the DFG project "Mendel Lefin Satanower's Yiddish translation of the book Ijov: Edition of an important testimony of the Eastern European Haskala in the early 19th century", Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies
- 03/2012 - 02/2014: Research assistant at the Chair of Jewish Literatures as assistant to Prof. Dr. Roland Gruschka, Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies
Scholarships
- 07/2014 - 12/2016: Doctoral scholarship from the Hanns Seidel Foundation
Publications
- Yiddish and Polish-language family novels after the First World War: Literary confrontations with a time of crisis, (Beiträge zur slavischen Philologie, vol. 24), Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2023.
- "Rückkehr heißt das Wort" - Die Rückkehr zum Judentum in den Familienromanen Jüdische Familienpapiere Wilhelm Herzbergs und Dray doyres Yoel Mastboyms, in: Manja Herrmann (ed.): Wilhelm Herzberg's Jewish Family Papers (1868). Interdisciplinary Readings of a Bestseller, De Gruyter, Berlin, Munich, Boston 2021, pp. 123-136.
- Family novels of the Polish interwar period: Maria Dąbrowska's Noce i dnie and Israel Joshua Singer's Di brider Ashkenazi, in: Frischmuth, Agatha/Hoy, Therese/Färber, Christina (eds.): Erinnerungsraum Osteuropa. On the Poetics of Migration, Memory and History in Slavic Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Peter Lang, Berlin 2019, pp. 41-54.
- The family novel in modern Yiddish literature, in: Mussaf. Magazine of the University of Jewish Studies, 2 (2012), pp. 14-15.
Reviews
- Andrei S. Markovits' autobiography Der Pass mein Zuhause. In praise of rootlessness, Deutsch-Rumänische Hefte, volume XXVI, issue 2 (2023), p. 38.
- Lesebuch Jüdische Schicksale in und aus Rumänien, in: Deutsch-Rumänische Hefte, Jahrgang XXV, Heft 1 (2022), p. 37.
- Dana von Suffrin's debut novel Otto, in: Deutsch-Rumänische Hefte, volume XXIII, issue 2 (2020), p. 34.
- Aharon Appelfeld's novel Meine Eltern, in: Deutsch-Rumänische Hefte, Volume XXIII, Issue 1 (2020), p. 32.
- Yechiel Shraibman's Ein Denkmal für Itzik Rachmiels und andere Erzählungen aus dem Raschkewer Schtetl, in: Deutsch-Rumänische Hefte, Jahrgang XVI, Heft 2 (2013), p. 29.
Lectures
- 4.-6.9.2023, XXVI Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany, University of Trier; lecture topic: "Gebentsht zol zeyer nomen zayn!" - The Sacco-Vanzetti case in Yiddish literature.
- 25.-27.2.2019, Die 72 Sprachen der Tora: Jüdische Übersetzungen der Hebräischen Bibel, conference of the Association of Jewish Studies in Germany; lecture topic: Mendel Lefin Satanower's Yiddish translation of the Book of Iyov: Edition of an important testimony of the Eastern European Haskalah in the early 19th century.
- 12.-14.9.2016, XIX Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf; lecture topic: Maria Dąbrowska's Noce i dnie and Israel Joschua Singer's Di Brider Ashkenazi. Two family novels from the Polish interwar period.
- 1.-April 3, 2016, Young Forum for Slavic Literary Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; lecture topic: Maria Dąbrowska's Noce i dnie and Israel Joshua Singer's Di Brider Ashkenazi. Two family novels from the Polish interwar period.
Research interests
- Modern Yiddish literature
- Polish literature of the 20th century