Yaelle Frohlich

Yaelle Frohlich is a doctoral candidate in New York University’s joint program in History and Hebrew & Judaic Studies. She received her BA in English Communications (Journalism) and MA in Modern Jewish History from Yeshiva University. Her work focuses on the circulation of information about Palestine in the nineteenth-century Jewish press, engaging with questions of mass migration, ideological movements, identity formation, and the emergence of a transnational Jewish public sphere. She is also interested in Hebrew and Yiddish literary translation, such as Yehoash’s Yiddish Bible translation (1922-5) and Chaim Nachman Bialik’s epic poem, “In the City of Slaughter” (1903). Additionally, she has an extensive background in stage performance, editing, and creative writing.