The Jewish World in Ukrainian Short Fiction, August 10th at 1pm EST
How did Ukrainian short fiction writers represent Jews and Jewish life as well as Ukrainian-Jewish relations? In this lecture, Khrystyna Semeryn, a Ukrainian independent researcher, journalist, and writer will delve into the details of Ukrainian literary imagery of the Jewish world based on over a hundred pieces of literature.
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Free as a Jew, August 14th at 1pm EST
In her new book, Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation, Harvard professor emerita Ruth R. Wisse reflects on her experience fleeing the Holocaust as a child, living through the birth of the State of Israel, and teaching Yiddish literature and Comparative Literature at Harvard University for more than 20 years. This event will feature Wisse in conversation with Dr. Yoel Finkelman, Judaica Collection Curator at the National Library of Israel.
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Insiders/Outsiders: Jewish Artists in Britain, August 21st at 1pm EST
This illustrated lecture by London-based art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen will examine the significant contribution made to British visual culture by artists of Jewish origin, against a background of increasing emancipation and assimilation from the nineteenth century onwards.
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Israel in the British Literary Imagination, August 28th at 1pm EST
In this session Daniel Taub, an Israeli diplomat and international lawyer, will look at how conceptions of Israel have changed over time, and ask whether these tell us more about the Jewish state they are describing or the authors who are writing them.
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