BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180108T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180108T200000 DTSTAMP:20260426T180806 CREATED:20171214T004213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171229T203240Z UID:27811-1515438000-1515441600@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:Book launch with Prof. Sasha Senderovich at Elliott Bay Books DESCRIPTION:Professor Sasha Senderovich will discuss his recently published translation of the 1929 Yiddish-language novel Judgment in this evening at The Elliott Bay Book Company. Prof. Senderovich’s translation\, a collaboration with Professor Harriet Murav of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\, is the first time Bergelson’s portrait of a Jewish shtetl in the Russian Revolution has been rendered into English. \nRSVP is not required for this event. Inquiries should be directed to the Elliott Bay Book Company. Learn more about this event here. \nBook synopsis\nNever before available in English\, Judgment is a work of startling power by David Bergelson\, the most celebrated Yiddish prose writer of his era. \nSet in 1920 during the Russian Civil War\, Judgment (titled Mides-hadin in Yiddish) traces the death of the shtetl and the birth of the “new\, harsher world” created by the 1917 Russian Revolution. As Bolshevik power expanded toward the border between Poland and Ukraine\, Jews and non-Jews smuggled people\, goods\, and anti-Bolshevik literature back and forth. In the novel’s fictional town of Golikhovke\, the Bolsheviks have established their local outpost in a former monastery\, where the non-Jewish Filipov acts as the arbiter of “judgment” and metes out punishments and executions to the prisoners held there: Yuzi Spivak\, arrested for anti-Bolshevik activities; Aaron Lemberger\, a pious and wealthy Jew; a seductive woman referred to as “the blonde” who believes she can appease Filipov with sex; and a memorable cast of toughs\, smugglers\, and criminals. \nOrdinary people\, depicted in a grotesque\, aphoristic style—comparable to Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry—confront the overwhelming\, mysterious forces of history\, whose ultimate outcome remains unknown. Murav and Senderovich’s new translation expertly captures Bergelson’s inimitable modernist style. \nBios\nSASHA SENDEROVICH is an assistant professor of Russian and Jewish studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has published on Soviet Jewish culture and literature\, including on Yiddish writer Moyshe Kulbak’s novel The Zelmenyaners\, as well as on contemporary fiction by émigré Russian Jewish writers in America. \nDAVID BERGELSON (1884–1952)\, a Jewish novelist\, short-story writer\, and literary editor\, was born in Ukraine. He moved to Berlin in 1921 and traveled throughout Europe and the United States until Hitler came to power in Germany. He returned to the Soviet Union in 1934\, where he was eventually executed under Stalin’s orders. The author of The End of Everything and Descent\, Bergelson was one of the most widely read Yiddish-language writers of the twentieth century. \nHARRIET MURAV is a professor of Russian and comparative literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia and Holy Foolishness: Dostoevsky’s Novels and the Poetics of Cultural Critique. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/senderovich-elliott-bay-books/ LOCATION:The Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Bergelson-book-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180130T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180130T170000 DTSTAMP:20260426T180806 CREATED:20180108T184718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180130T185331Z UID:28040-1517326200-1517331600@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:Salud y Shalom: Jews in the Spanish Civil War DESCRIPTION:American Jewish volunteer George Watt marches with his unit in Spain \nEighty years ago\, nearly 3\,000 Americans embarked for Europe to join the democratically elected Spanish Republic in its effort to repel a military coup led by Francisco Franco. Nearly one-third of the American volunteers were Jews. \nIn the early ’90s\, Professor Joe Butwin interviewed dozens of these Jewish veterans of the Spanish Civil War\, collecting their stories and inviting them to reflect on the connection between their Judaism and their decision to serve. \nNow\, in collaboration with the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, Professor Butwin has curated a new digital exhibit presenting the recollections of five of these volunteer service members – three soldiers and two nurses – who discuss their motivations\, their experiences during the war\, and their connections to Judaism\, past and present. \nFrom the “Salud y Shalom” homepage \nThis multimedia project brings together veterans’ voices\, via original audio recordings of the interviews\, and contemporary photographs and artifacts\, creating a vivid portrait of a radically different period in the American Jewish past. \nIn this event\, Professor Butwin will talk about the origins of the project\, the war volunteers he spoke with in the 1990s\, and the process he went through in translating his materials into an accessible online format. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nNote: We are expecting full capacity for this event. While we cannot guarantee space to guests who did not RSVP\, there will be a first come\, first served waitlist. We hope to be able to accommodate everyone who is interested in the program. \nExplore “Salud y Shalom: American Jews in the Spanish Civil War\, 1936-1939”: \n \n  \n  URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/talk-salud-y-shalom-jews-spanish-civil-war/ LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/George-Watt-marching.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR