Tuesday, February 20, 2024,
7:00-8:30 pm ET
On Zoom
Dr. Anita Norich will lead a leyenkrayz (Reading Circle), focusing on the poem “Salute” by Moyshe Leyb Halpern (English translation by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav) and “Good Night, World” by Yankev Glatshteyn. We will discuss ‘Salute’ in relation to Black History/Liberation Month. We are honoured to have a contemporary Yiddish translator and scholar lead this leyenkrayz!
FACILITATOR BIO
Anita Norich is Tikva Frymer-Kensky Collegiate Professor Emerita of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the translator of Desires by Tsilye Dropkin (forthcoming, 2024), Fear and Other Stories by Chana Blankshteyn (2022), and A Jewish Refugee in New York by Kadya Molodovsky (2019). She is also the author of Writing in Tongues: Yiddish Translation in the 20th Century (2013), Discovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish American Literature in America During the Holocaust (2007), The Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer (1991); and co-editor of Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, 2016), Jewish Literatures and Cultures: Context and Intertext, (2008), and Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures (1992).
ACCESSIBILITY
CART captioning is available. The discussion will be mainly in English and reading aloud of Yiddish poems will be CART captured in transliteration. All Yiddish content is presented on screen in Yiddish, Yiddish transliteration, and English translation.
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