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)