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SUMMARY:VIDEO | Sasha Senderovich — Against Nostalgia: The Old Country in the Jewish American Imagination
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Sasha Senderovich\, assistant professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington\, for a 20-minute “quick talk” on immigrants’ perspectives towards “the old country” as seen in American Jewish literature\, centering around a poem by the Yiddish poet Moyshe-Leyb Halpern (1886-1932). \nThis talk is available online:\n \nAbout the talk\nThe vast majority of Jews who arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th century were Yiddish-speaking Jews from the Russian Empire. Their progeny — Ashkenazi Jews who\, by the turn of the 21st century\, have been Americans for three or four generations — derive the understanding of their collective history\, in part\, from the popular representations of the “old country\,” disseminated through such mass culture productions as the musical “Fiddler on the Roof.” \nBut the story — and history — is more complicated. In this talk we will look at the famous\, caustic poem “Zlochov\, My Home\,” written by the modernist Yiddish poet Moyshe-Leyb Halpern\, who immigrated to New York City in 1908. The discussion will focus on the poet’s imperative to think beyond and even against nostalgia for the “old country” as he tries to make sense of his new world. \nThis talk will offer a preview of the fall course Jewish American Literature and Culture\, and will be followed by a Q&A session with questions submitted via http://www.slido.com and moderated by a staff member. Please RSVP below for more details. \nGet ready\n\nRead the poem “Zlochov\, My Home\,” in English translation (or Yiddish)\nLearn more about Sasha Senderovich’s fall 2020 course\, JEW ST 357\, Jewish American Literature and Culture. This course considers ways in which American Jews assimilate and resist assimilation\, while Jewish writers\, filmmakers\, comedians\, and graphic novelists imitate and transform American life and literature — with particular emphasis on questions of immigration\, identity\, gender\, sexuality\, race\, inter-generational trauma\, and cultural memory. Bookmark the course on MyPlan.\n\nAbout the speaker\nSasha Senderovich holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University (2010). His published work includes articles on Russian Jewish writers David Bergelson and Isaac Babel\, as well as on contemporary English-language fiction by Russian Jewish émigré authors\, including Gary Shteynart and Anya Ulinich. His and Harriet Murav’s critical translation\, from the Yiddish\, of David Bergelson’s “Judgment: A Novel” was published in 2017. He is currently at work on his first book manuscript\, “How the Soviet Jew Was Made: Culture and Mobility after the Revolution.” \nIn addition to his academic work\, Sasha has published journalism and public scholarship in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Tablet\, Lilith\, The Forward\, The New York Times\, The New Republic\, and The New Yorker’s Page-turner blog (these articles can be found here). One of his additional regular activities involves summertime teaching as a faculty member of the Great Jewish Books program for high school students\, in Amherst\, Massachusetts. \nOur pdf to word converter service is totally free and it makes handling PDF documents painless. Try it and you will see your DOC ready in seconds.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/sasha-senderovich-against-nostalgia-old-country-zlochov-halpern/
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SUMMARY:VIDEO | Chagall\, Modigliani\, & Jewish Painters from the Russian "Pale of Settlement"
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Galya Diment\, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington\, for a 20-minute “quick talk” on how early 20th-century painters Marc Chagall and Amedeo Modigliani related to Jewishness in their lives and art — and how their work contrasts with that of other Jewish painters from the Russian “Pale of Settlement.”\n \nThis talk is available online:\n \nAbout this talk\nThe Russian “Pale of Settlement” was the region of western Imperial Russia in which Jews were allowed to settle permanently. Many gifted painters emerged from this area in the early twentieth century\, though few were as famous as Marc Chagall (1887-1985)\, a modernist painter famous for portraying biblical scenes and themes in his art. \nIn the talk\, Galya Diment will discuss Marc Chagall’s career alongside that of his contemporary\, Amedeo Modigliani. Then she will offer an overview of other Jewish painters in the “Pale of Settlement” region\, previewing her fall 2020 course\, RUSS 426\, Painters from the Russian Pale of Jewish Settlement. \nLearn more\n\nRead Galya Diment’s new article on Chagall and Modigliani in Paris: “Judaism vs. Cubism in Paris” (Tablet\, 2020).\nGalya Diment will offer a course in early twentieth-century Jewish painters in fall 2020: RUSS 426\, Russian Art and Architecture — Painters from the Russian Pale of Jewish Settlement\, looking at the work of Marc Chagall\, El Lissitzky\, Leon Bakst\, and others\, and the history and debates around their work. Bookmark the course on MyPlan.\n\nAbout the speaker\nGalya Diment is professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and has authored and edited six books\, including “Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel” (2013)\, and “A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky” (2013). \nHer essay about her grandfather\, who was a rabbi near Vitebsk in present-day Belarus\, was featured in a Vitebsk publication “Mishpoka” in 2013. Her articles have also appeared in the Times Literary Supplement\, New York Magazine\, and London Magazine. She is currently working on a book about Jewish painters from Vitebsk at the turn of the twentieth century\, titled “Vitebsk and Beyond: Yehuda Pen\, Marc Chagall\, and Leon Gaspard.”
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/galya-diment-chagall-modigliani-russian-jewish-painters/
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SUMMARY:VIDEO | Richard Block —The 2015 Hungarian Drama "Son of Saul" and a New Chapter in Films About the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Richard Block\, professor of Germanics at the University of Washington\, for a 20-minute “quick talk” on how the 2015 Hungarian historical drama “Son of Saul” represents a turning point in how the Holocaust is portrayed in film.\n \nThe talk is available online: \n\nAbout the talk\nThis talk explores how László Nemes’s 2015 film “Son of Saul” responds to the challenges put forth some two decades earlier by Claude Lanzmann’s groundbreaking 1985 documentary\, “Shoah.”  Specifically\, Block will discuss how “Son of Saul” defies Lanzmann’s dismissal of any attempt to represent the Shoah\, and offers instead “a biographical fable.” \nLearn more\n\nRichard Block will offer a fall 2020 course on portrayals of the Holocaust in film: JEW ST 175\, Popular Film and the Holocaust. Bookmark the course on MyPlan.\n\nAbout the speaker\nRichard Block is professor of Germanics at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in German literature and critical theory from Northwestern\, and has published several books\, including “Echoes of a Queer Messianic: From Frankenstein to Brokeback Mountain” (2018) and “The Spell of Italy: Vacation\, Magic and the Attraction of Goethe” (2006). \nHe frequently teaches courses on Jewish-German relations and the Holocaust\, and emphasizes placing philosophical\, literary and cultural texts (including films) in dialogue with each other in his work with students.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/richard-block-son-of-saul-holocaust-films/
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SUMMARY:VIDEO | The History of a Page: Reflecting on the Talmud as a Physical Book (and What I've Learned Since My Stroum Lecture 23 Years Ago)
DESCRIPTION:Dr. David Stern of Harvard University will discuss what he’s learned about the Talmud — a carefully curated collection of thousands of years’ worth of rabbinic commentaries on Jewish law and the Jewish Bible — and its shifting form over time\, based on research related to his recently published book\, “The Jewish Bible: A Material History\,” part of the University of Washington Press’s Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies series. \nThis talk is available online:\n \nA page from the Talmud\, with commentary and notes surrounding central text. Example from YUTorah Online\, a project of Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future. \nAbout the talk\nThe layout of the Talmudic page\, with its text in the center surrounded by a sea of commentaries\, is the iconic page format of the Jewish book. Where does this page layout come from\, and what is its history? What impact has it had on the reception of the Talmud\, and the way the Talmud has been studied over the centuries? \nIn this special online presentation\, Stern will reflect on what he’s learned about the Talmud and its physical form in the years since his original Stroum Lecture in Jewish Studies in 1997 — and will discuss how the physicality and formatting of books can profoundly impact the way we read and interpret them. \nAbout the speaker\nDavid Stern is the Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature and the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. He has been the recipient of many fellowships and awards\, including a junior fellowship in Harvard’s Society of Fellows and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute. \nThe main topic of Stern’s scholarship is the nature of Jewish literary creativity within its larger historical and cultural contexts\, and he has written articles\, essays\, and books on virtually every period of Jewish literary history from the early post-Biblical to the contemporary. \nHis work has primarily focused on two areas. The first of these is classical rabbinic and medieval Hebrew literature\, with a special interest in biblical interpretation (Rabbinic midrash in particular) and its intersection with contemporary literary theory. The second field is the history of the Jewish book as a material object\, and specifically the histories of the four classics works of Jewish literary and religious tradition: the Hebrew Bible\, the Babylonian Talmud\, the prayerbook\, and the Passover Haggadah.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/david-stern-history-talmud-as-physical-book/
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