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314: Yiddish and the Postvernacular in the Post–Cold War

1:45 PM–3:00 PM Friday, Jan 4, 2019 (US - Central)

Sheraton Grand - Huron

Session Information

Presentations

1: Yiddish Literature in a Postvernacular World

Matthew Johnson, U of Chicago

2: Avrom Sutzkever’s ‘Tzu Poyln’ and the Ghost Dance with Spectral Polin, from 1946 to 2006

Karen Underhill, U of Illinois, Chicago

3: The Old, Weird Russian-Jewish America: Psoy Korolenko and the Revival of Postwar Yiddish Style

Adrien Smith, Stanford U

Presider

Gabriella Safran, Stanford U

Respondent

Sunny Yudkoff, U of Wisconsin, Madison

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