This event is in English and will be held on Zoom on April 26, 2021, at 1 pm PST (SF), 4 pm EST (NY).
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We will also be live streaming the event on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/GlobusBooksSF/videos) and later will share the edited version of the program.

Jews and Ukrainians lived side by side in Eastern Europe for centuries, and the relationship is often characterized as fraught, at best, and bitter enmity at worst. However, the two groups also inspired one another, artistically. In this talk, Amelia Glaser will discuss the influence of Ukrainian literature on Yiddish literature in the first half of the twentieth century, from Sholem Aleichem to the Soviet Yiddish poet Dovid Hofshteyn. Dr. Glaser will draw her comments from her recent book, Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine (Harvard U.P., 2020) as well as her previous monograph, Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands (Northwestern U.P., 2012), which has now been published in Russian translation by Academic Studies Press.

Amelia Glaser is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of California — San Diego, where she also directs the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and Jewish Studies, programs. Her work lies at the intersection of Russian, Jewish, and Ukrainian literary culture. She has written about the relationship of these three groups in the territory of Ukraine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands (Northwestern UP, 2012) and Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine (Harvard U.P., 2020). She is the editor of Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising (Stanford UP, 2015) and, with Steven Lee, Comintern Aesthetics (U. Toronto Press, 2020); she is the translator of Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets (U. Wisconsin Press, 2005).