Yale Annual Seminar on Modern Hebrew Literature and Jewish Literatures

Event time: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 9:00am to Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 4:00pm
Location: 
Bingham Hall, Comparative Literature Library (8th floor) See map

The Program of Judaic Studies and The Department of Comparative Literature

Bilingualism in Modern Hebrew Literature and Jewish Literatures

Schedule

Wednesday, May 1st – Lectures (in English)

9:00-9:45 Gathering and Breakfast

9:45-10:00 Greetings

10:00-10:45 Adam Rovner, University of Denver. Manufacturing the Universal: Israel in North American Fiction

11:00-11:45 Thomas Connolly, Yale University. Dreams, Knots: Reading David Rokeah with Paul Celan

12:00-12:45 Sunny Yudkoff, University of Wisconsin. Foaming at the Mouth:  Rabies, Melancholia and Hebrew-Yiddish Bilingualism in S.Y Agnon Temol Shilshom

12:45-14:00  Lunch Break

14:00-14:45 Asaf Angermann, Yale University. The Arts of Hope and Failure: Benjamin, Celan, Szondi

15:00-15:45 Anton Shammas, University of Michigan. Can the Bilingual Speak?

Thursday, May 2nd – Workshops (in Hebrew)

9:00-9:30 Gathering and Breakfast

09:30-11:00 Anton Shammas. Translation as a Form of ‟Revenge”: on translating into Hebrew a poem by Taha Muhammad Ali

11:15-12:45 Sunny Yudkoff. ‟לאדנינא זינג”: Bilingualism in the Poetry of Jacob Glatstein

12:45-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-15:00 Adam Rovner. ‟It Wasn’t A Very Good Time for Hebrew”: The Hebrew Teacher by Maya Arad

15:15-16:00 Hannan Hever. Concluding Remarks: The Politics of Diglosia

Workshop Conveners

Prof. Hannan Hever (Yale University) Prof. Adam Rovner (University of Denver)

Prof. Anton Shammas (University of Michigan) Prof. Sunny Yudkoff (University of Wisconsin)

Organized by

Prof. Hannan Hever

Coordinators

Lital Abazon, Ariel Pridan, Renee Reed

Venue: Bingham Hall, Comparative Literature Library (8th floor)

Download seminar poster here (PDF)