Events
International Confrence
The Avant-Garde in Yiddish Culture
The 100th Anniversary of Khalyastre
The Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Nanotechnology Triplex Auditorium (Building 206)
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
9:30-10:00
Registration
10:00-11:30
Session 1: Yiddish Avant-Garde: Art and Theater
Chair: Ilia Rodov (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan)
A Swan Song for the Jewish Avant-Garde: Chagall’s Illustrations for the journal Khalyastre, 1922-24
Mirjam Rajner (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan)
Aleksei Granowsky and the Avant-Garde in Yiddish Theater (in Yiddish)
אלעקסיי גראַנאָווסקי און דער אַוואַנגאַרד אינעם ייִדישן טעאַטער
Leonid Roitman (Beth Shalom Aleichem, Tel Aviv)
Avant-Garde in Boxes: Yiddish Treasure Troves at The Israel Goor Theatre Archives and Museum
Leah Gilula (The Israel Goor Theatre Archives and Museum, Jerusalem)
Coffee Break
12:00-13:30
Session 2: Avant-Garde and Yiddish Poetry (part 1)
Chair: Haim Weiss (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva)
Dovid Hofshteyn and his ‘Brothers’: Poetry, Belonging and Fraternity
Sabine Koller (Regensburg University)
Ascending to Hell: The Poetics of Deconstruction in Platonov and Markish
Elaine Wilson (Columbia University, New York)
Yael Levi (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan)
17:00
Reception and Formal Opening Session
Prof. Shmuel Refael, Dean, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan
The Voices of Yiddish Modernism
David Roskies (Jewish Theological Seminary, New York)
Dinner
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
9:30-11:00
Session 3: Yiddish Avant-Garde – Linguistic and Thematical Aspects
Chair: Yaakov Herskovitz (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Revisioning the Modernism: Avant-Garde Responses to Pogroms and Revolution, 1910-1925
Efraim Sicher (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva)
Smuggling the Goles: Peripheralities of Language and Location in Oyzer Varshavski’s Shmuglars
Marc Caplan (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf)
Khalyastre Poets and their Lexical Contribution to the Yiddish Vocabulary (in Yiddish)
Shlomo Groman (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan)
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30
Session 4: Yiddish Avant-Garde in the Russian and Soviet Context
Chair: Rafi Tsirkin-Sadan (Open University, Ra’anana)
Brian Horowitz (Tulane University, New Orleans)
The Desire for Cohesion among the Soviet-Yiddish Avant-Garde
Noa Tsaushu (Columbia University, New York)
Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30
Session 5: Avant-Garde and Yiddish Poetry (part 2)
Chair: Claudia Rosenzweig (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan)
“I Sliced it from my Soul like a Living Organ”: Uri Zvi Greenberg's Transition from Bilingualism to Writing Exclusively in Hebrew
Neta Dan (Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts, Tel Aviv)
A Comparative Study of the Poems Mefisto by U.Z. Grinberg and The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
16:00
Closing Session
Greetings
Prof. Giddon Ticotsky, Head of the Program of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Frightful and Fruitful – 1918-1952 – From Avant-Garde to Social Realism and Martyrdom (in Yiddish)
Dov-Ber Kerler (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Organizers
Nati Cohen, Department of Literature of the Jewish People, The Rena Costa Center for Yiddish Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Roy Greenwald, Department of Hebrew Literature, The Center for Yiddish Culture, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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The Yosef and Nachum Berman Department of Jewish Literature
The Rina Costa Center for Yiddish Studies
2019-2020 Academic Year Opening Day Ceremony
Solo Performance: “My Father’s Daughter”— Bella Bricks-Klein
Monday, 27 Marcheshvan 5780, November 25, 2019 at 12 pm
In the Beck Auditorium (Jewish Studies Building 410)
A glimpse in the inner world of a 2nd generation daughter of the Shoah, who was raised as a daughter of a Yiddish writer. Personal stories in Hebrew from the home of resilience, optimism, and hope—interspersed with cherished Yiddish songs.
Written by Bella Bricks-Klein
Arrangements and directing by Dori Engel
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2019 Holocaust Memorial Day
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