Two-Day Discussion: April 22 and April 23 at 1:00 PM Central Standard Time
Writing Women: Yiddish Gender Politics
April 22 link: https://bit.ly/3tMHmOu
Join Anita Norich for a talk that will focus on questions about women and Yiddish writing. When and what did women write in Yiddish? Why are so few of them known as prose writers? How did critics respond to them? How did they respond to one another?
The event is sponsored by The Department of Germanic Studies, The Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, The Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality , The Yiddish Fund, and Translation Studies.
Apr 22, 2021 01:00 PM in Central Time (US and Canada)
April 22 link: https://bit.ly/3tMHmOu
Yiddish Literary Recovery and Translation: A Conversation
April 23 link: https://bit.ly/3d60eRL
This conversation between Jessica Kirzane and Anita Norich will consider their current projects translating women's prose from Yiddish to English, the challenges and rewards of translation, and the ways in which translation is changing the understanding of Yiddish and Jewish literary history.
The event is sponsored by The Department of Germanic Studies, The Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, The Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality , The Yiddish Fund, and Translation Studies.
Time
Apr 23, 2021 01:00 PM in Central Time (US and Canada)
April 23 link: https://bit.ly/3d60eRL