Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine
Jewish Community Library
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Amelia Glaser is a professor of Russian and comparative literature at UC San Diego, where she also directs the Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies program and the Jewish studies program. She is the author of the forthcoming "Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine" and "Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands"; the editor of Stories of "Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising"; and the coeditor, with Steven Lee, of "Comintern Aesthetics." She is also the translator of a collection of Yiddish poems, "Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets."
Co-sponsored by the The Workers Circle/Arbeter Ring of Northern California. Co-presented by KlezCalifornia.