The Early Sutzkever and His Radical Poetic Change during the Khurbn

This is a live, online seminar held weekly on Zoom. Enrollment will be capped at about 15 students. All course details (Zoom link, syllabus, handouts, etc.) will be posted to Canvas. Students will be granted access to the class on Canvas after registering for the class here on the YIVO website. This class will be conducted in Yiddish.

Instructor: Miriam Trinh

Who should take this course?
Students should be prepared to have all readings and discussions be conducted entirely in Yiddish. Students who took Daled, Hey or Vov in the 2021 Summer Program would be ready for this course.

Course Description:
This course will discuss a selected corpus of Avrom Sutzkever’s early poetry with which he started his poetic career. Then, the class will examine selections of Sutzkever’s writings from the Ghetto period, in order to see what kind of changes he underwent.

Course Materials:
The instructor will provide course materials digitally to students throughout the class.

Miriam Trinh was born in Poland, grew up in Germany and immigrated to Israel after finishing High School. She completed her undergraduate studies in Philosophy and Yiddish at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, obtained her Master's degree in Yiddish literature at the Universities of Paris-Sorbonne and Strasbourg (France), her Ph.D. at the Hebrew University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She has taught Yiddish language and literature since 1999, in Paris, Oxford, Strassbourg, Vilna, New York, Baltimore, Tel Aviv and is currently teaching Yiddish at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Miriam Trinh has published works in the field of Modern Yiddish Literature and especially on Holocaust literature. She is also engaged in translation from and into Yiddish.

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