User:Shimke fun brooklyn

Shimke fun Brooklyn

Stanley F (Shimke) Levine

Born in Brooklyn NY; currently reside in Oberlin, Ohio.

Education: Reed College BA in World Literature (main concentration: German)1963 Bachelor's thesis: The Castle of Illusion: Myth and Reality in Kafka's Das Schloss

Universite Paul-Valery, Montpellier, France and Sorbonne, Paris Licence es lettres (2, one in French Literature and one in European Literature)1968

Universite Paul-Valery, Montpellier, France Certificat de langue, literatture et civilisation occitanes, 1969

Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, CA PhD in French and Humanities, 1985 Doctoral dissertation: The Jewish Character in Pre-Revolutionary French Literature (i.e. from the Middle Ages through the Eighteenth Century)

Yidish studies at the Ecole nationale de langues orientales vivantes (Paris), Columbia University and the Yivo Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies (NY).

Career: University of South Carolina, Aiken Professor Emeritus Of French and Latin(employed from 1985 to 2009.

As ABD, I held visiting appointments in a half dozen or so colleges and universities, teaching French and/or Yiddish.

I also taught Yidish at the Bergenfield Peretz-shul (for children 8 to 13 years old)and the NY Mitlshul (High School age students).