Date: Monday, October 15, 2012. 5:15 PM.
Location: History Corner (bldg. 200) - Room 307
Clara Sumpf Yiddish LectureHarriet Murav, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures; and Comparative and World Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"Responding to the Holocaust in the Soviet Union: David Bergelson's Yiddish Story "An eydes" (A Witness)" An exploration of a neglected but extraordinary short story about the Holocaust published in the Soviet Union in 1946 by a renowned Yiddish author shot on Stalin's orders six years later.
Location: History Corner (bldg. 200) - Room 307
Clara Sumpf Yiddish LectureHarriet Murav, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures; and Comparative and World Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"Responding to the Holocaust in the Soviet Union: David Bergelson's Yiddish Story "An eydes" (A Witness)" An exploration of a neglected but extraordinary short story about the Holocaust published in the Soviet Union in 1946 by a renowned Yiddish author shot on Stalin's orders six years later.