Avrom Sutzkever After 1945: Between Europe and Israel

Class starts Mar 15 2:30pm-4:00pm

Tuition: $400 | YIVO members: $325**
Students: $215 (Must register with valid university email address)

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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

Course Description:
This course will study Avrom Sutzkever’s works in the immediate aftermath of the khurbn. We will consider the two main contexts of his writing after the liberation: on the one hand, the short period which he spent in Europe, still hoping to rebuild Yiddish life there after the war, and on the other hand, his first steps in his new homeland Israel, where he arrived in fall 1947 and started immediately to serve as an activist for the continuation of Yiddish culture. In addition to Sutzkever’s literary work, course materials will include additional historical sources in prose, such as testimonies, articles, and correspondence.

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 Materials:
The instructor will provide all course materials digitally throughout the class on Canvas.

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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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Photo: Avrom Sutzkever in Tel Aviv, 1947. Benno Rothenberg/Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, via Wikimedia Commons.