The Making and Unmaking of Soviet Yiddish Literature

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The Making and Unmaking of Soviet Yiddish Literature

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Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow in cooperation with the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL), Berlin, and the Professorship for Slavic Jewish Studies at the University of Regensburg (UR)
Veranstaltungsort
Literaturhaus Leipzig e. V. / Haus des Buches
Gefördert durch
»Leibniz Cooperative Excellence« program of the Leibniz Competition 2020.
PLZ
04103
Ort
Leipzig
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
27.06.2022 - 29.06.2022
Deadline
23.06.2022
Website
https://www.dubnow.de/en/event/what-is-on-trial-here-is-the-yiddish-language-the-making-and-unmaking-of-soviet-yiddish-literature
Von
Julia Roos, Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur - Simon Dubnow

2022 marks 70 years since the 1952 trial and execution of members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the Soviet Union on what has come to be known as the »Night of the Murdered Poets.« Taking the events of 1952 as a starting point, the Dubnow Institute will host a conference in Leipzig, Germany on 27 to 29 June 2022 to probe some of the tensions which characterized Soviet Yiddish literature, including questions of belonging and the relationship between universalism and particularism.

The Making and Unmaking of Soviet Yiddish Literature

The poets, and other figures executed in 1952, had enjoyed state support in the 1920s and survived the Stalinist terror of the 1930s, but the changes in nationalities policy in a Soviet Union which was becoming increasingly Russocentric resulted in a round of anti-Jewish purges after the War. Many of the trumped-up charges at the trial included »promoting nationalism« by simply looking out for Jewish interests in the Soviet Union or merely by continuing to write in Yiddish – to the point where one of the defendants, Solomon Lozovsky, ultimately concluded that »what is on trial here is the Yiddish language.«

The conference is based on the work of »The Short Life of Soviet Yiddish Literature« research group, an interdisciplinary partnership between scholars of the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow (DI), the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL), and the Professorship for Slavic Jewish Studies at the University of Regensburg (UR), which is funded for a period of three years by the »Leibniz Cooperative Excellence« program of the Leibniz Competition 2020.

The projects of the research group focus on poets, writers, and cultural figures who were engaged both personally and artistically in the tensions between tradition and modernity, between Jewish affiliation and the affirmation of the creation of a »new« Soviet human. Their life stories and works are explored against the backdrop of revolution, civil war, and emigration, as well as the experience of Stalinism, World War II, and the Holocaust. The presentations will touch directly on the events and protagonists of the trial itself, along with those which deal with the prior emergence and construction of Soviet Yiddish literature and culture since the October Revolution, as well as with its »afterlife« – the survival and continuation of Soviet Yiddish literature in the years after 1952.

Programm

Monday, June 27, 2022

2.15 p.m., Welcome Remarks/Introduction
Yfaat Weiss/Sabine Koller/Matthias Schwartz/Jan Gerber

2.45 p.m., Panel 1
Chair: Elisabeth Gallas

Daria Vakhrushova
Revolutionary Times: Temporality in the Poetry by Perets Markish

Tetyana Yakovleva
Utopia in the Making of New Yiddish Literature: Kalmen Zingman‘s City of Future

4.45 p.m., Keynote Address
Chair: Brett Winestock

Harriet Murav
Writing in “the Old Style” and Writing in a Late Style: Dovid Hofshteyn‘s Wartime Poetry

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

9.15 a.m., Panel 2
Chair: Efrat Gal-Ed

Sasha Senderovich
Haunted by Pogroms: Dovid Bergelson’s "Mides-hadin" and the Gothic Mode

Brett Winestock
Across Borders, Genres, and Ideologies: How Dovid Bergelson‘s "The Red Army Soldier" Became "By the Telephone"

11.15 a.m., Talk
Chair: Carolin Piorun

Sabine Koller
Kiev 1948: Dovid Hofshteyn‘s Last Poem

12.30 p.m., Lunch

2 p.m., Panel 3
Chair: Matthias Schwartz

Anna Shternshis
(Forgotten) Women Yiddish Authors of "The Black Book:" Rakhil Kovnator and Mira Zheleznova

Gennady Estraikh
The Jewish Star of Itsik Kipnis: A Story of Surveillance, Incarceration, and Rehabilitation

4 p.m., Panel 4
Chair: Olaf Terpitz

Jakob Stürmann
Jewish Unity against National Socialism: Different Perceptions of a Soviet Plea during World War II

Amelia Glaser
Biography of an American Reader: Alexander Pomerantz and Soviet Yiddish Literature

7.30 p.m., Jiddisch-deutsche Lesung
Chair: Jan Gerber

Caroline Emig/Sabine Koller/Alexandra Polyan
Zug des Lebens – die jiddische Literatur in der Sowjetunion

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

9.15 a.m., Panel 5
Chair: Daniel Weidner

Ber Kotlerman
Reshaping the Fate of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust: The Case of Der Nister

Alexandra Polyan
Peretz Markish‘s Poetry about the Holocaust at the Beginning of World War II and After It

11.15 a.m., Talk
Chair: Tom Navon

Mikhail Krutikov
Murdered Utopia of Soviet Yiddish Culture

12.30 p.m., Lunch

2 p.m., Panel 6
Chair: Jan Gerber

Valery Dymshits
The Teacher and the Disciple: Dovid Bergelson‘s Influence on Emmanuel Kazakevich‘s Prose

Irina Kissin
The Sephardic Narrative in Nathan Zabara‘s Historical Novel
"The Revolving Wheel"

3.45 p.m., Final Reflections
Efrat Gal-Ed
Olaf Terpitz
Moderated by Matthias Schwartz

Kontakt

Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow
Goldschmidtstraße 28
04103 Leipzig
+49 341 21 735 50
antwort@dubnow.de

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