The Annual Clara Sumpf Lecture Series featuring Amelia Glaser

Join us for one or both of this lecture series. Amelia Glaser is Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies at UC San Diego. She is the author of Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine (Harvard University Press, 2020) and Jews in Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands (Northwestern University Press, 2012), among other publications. Her translations include a recent book of Halyna Kruk’s poetry, A Short Course in Molotov Cocktails, (Arrowsmith Press, Spring 2023) co-translated from Ukrainian with Professor Yuliya Ilchuk (Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford). Glaser received her PhD from Stanford's department of Comparative Literature. 

Dates and Locations:

Yiddish Lecture

    Tuesday, May 2 at 12:00pm

    German Library (Bldg. 260, rm 252) or via Zoom

סקאָטסבאָראָ אין ייִדישע לידער: צװישן פּאָגראָמען און לינטשערײַ
“Scottsboro in Yiddish Poetry: Between Pogroms and Lynchings”

English Lecture
   Wednesday, May 3 at 5:00pm
   CCSRE Conference Room (Bldg. 360, first floor)

“The Ukrainian-Jewish Looking Glass: Dovid Hofshteyn’s Soviet Yiddish Translations of Taras Shevchenko”

Co-sponsored with Stanford's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Join for one or both of these events.
Open to the public!