Noa Tsaushu

Noa Tsaushu is a Ph.D. candidate of Yiddish Studies and Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. She received her bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and spent more than eight years as a practicing artist, working in various media and exhibiting in solo and group shows in Israel. Her interdisciplinary interest in the Yiddish avant-garde led her to the Department of Literatures of the Jewish People at Bar-Ilan University, where she received her master’s in Yiddish Studies. She is currently writing her dissertation, “The Desire for Cohesion among the Soviet Yiddish Avant-Garde.” Her project forwards the term Yiddish art as a theoretical reappraisal of the movement’s interdisciplinary practice and cultural production. In Columbia, Noa serves as a Yiddish Language Instructor for various levels.