Elizabeth Loentz

Elizabeth Loentz is an Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies.
She received her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Pennsylvania
and her Ph.D. at the Ohio State University. Prior her doctoral
studies at Ohio State, she developed a German as Second Language
program for unaccompanied, minor-aged refugees at Haus Chevalier:
Clearing-Stelle fur unbegleitete, minderjahrige Fluchtlingskinder
in Hallbergmoos, Germany and served as the program's first teacher.
Her research and teaching interests include German-Jewish cultural
studies, Yiddish literature and culture in Central and Eastern Europe,
Yiddish in Chicago, Yiddish language, the First German Women's Movement,
and Minority literatures and cultures in Germany and Austria. Current
projects include a biography of German-Jewish feminist leader,
social worker, anti-prostitution and white slavery activist,
and author Bertha Pappenheim (Anna O.) and a study of the secular
Yiddish schools in Chicago.