In the second event for the Yiddish Ecologies conference series, this panel will feature presentations exploring ecological thought and image in the work of visionary poet and partisan fighter Avrom Sutzkever (1913-2010).
Speakers will include:
Eva Hückmann, “Sutzkever’s Siberia as a mythical assemblage: An ecocriticist reading of ‘Sibir’ (1936)”
Karolina Koprowska (Institute of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
“Onem shney vet kalt zayn in der flamiker medine. Displaced Landscapes in the Post-Khurbn Poetry of Avrom Sutzkever”
Kate Brackney (Leiden University)
“Beyond Bearing Witness: Oceans, Ethers, and Hybrid Creatures in Early Art and Literature of Holocaust Remembrance”
Rachel A. Martin (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
“Remixing Place: Translating Ecologies and the Imprint of Africa in Avrom Sutzkever’s Poetic Landscapes”
Anna Elena Torres (University of Chicago)
“Sleeping Bears of the Steppe”: Fauna and Fur in Sutzkever’s Poetry
Co-sponsored by the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, the Dept of Comparative Literature, and Chicago YIVO Society.
Register here for the Zoom presentation