Dr. Magdalena Vinco

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

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"

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

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.

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.

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.