Amelia Glaser is Professor of Literature at UCSD. She is the author of “Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands” and “Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine”. She is the editor of “Stories of Khmelnytsky” and, with Steven Lee, “Comintern Aesthetics.” With Yuliya Ilchuk she co-translated, from Ukrainian, Halyna Kruk’s “A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails” and Iya Kiva’s “Silence in Cyrillic Letters.”
Related events
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Saturday, 31 May
18:30 - 20:00
Discussion “The Poetry of Suffering, the Poetics of Empathy”
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Sunday, 01 June
12:00 - 13:00
Discussion “Yiddish as a Ukrainian Language”