Frakes awarded Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies

The UB Department of English's Jerold Frakes, SUNY Distinguished Professor, has been awarded the Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies for his book “Early Yiddish Epic” from the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). This prize is awarded to an outstanding translation of a Yiddish literary work.