Yiddish and Translation: Linguistic, Cultural and Political Aspects (the Soviet Case and Beyond)

Venue: Universität Regensburg, Sedanstraße 1, 93055 Regensburg, Seminarraum 041

Organized by Sabine Koller, Alexandra Polyan (University of Regensburg)

Research project(s): The Short Life of Soviet Yiddish Literature

Program

Wednesday, 27 Sep 2023
Location: UR Sedanstraße 1, Seminarraum 041

2.15 pm
Opening

2.30 pm

Daria Vakhrushova (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf): Aleksander Finkel – Akteur des jiddisch-ukrainischen literarischen Netzwerks
Valeri Dymshits (European University, Saint Petersburg): Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva as Yiddish Poetry Translators. Petersburg and Moscow Translation Schools

4.30 pm
Close reading (P. Markish)

7.00 pm
Location: Jüdische Gemeinde Regensburg. Am Brixener Hof, 2, 93047 Regensburg

Book launch: Dovid Bergelson: Die Welt möge Zeuge sein [with a small reception in the community]

Thursday, 28 Sep 2023
Location: UR Sedanstraße 1, Seminarraum 041

9.00 am

Jakob Stürmann (Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Leipzig): Yiddishe Eynikayt – Jewish Unity – Evrejskoe Edinstvo. Eine transnationale Erwiderung auf Holocaust, Zweiten Weltkrieg und Großen Vaterländischen Krieg
Alexandra Polyan (University of Regensburg): Übersetzung aus dem Jiddischen in Dovid Bergelsons Erzählung “Der Zeuge”

11.00 am

Elizaveta Domnikova (University of Regensburg): The Phenomenon of Literary Self-Translation from Yiddish into Russian
Irina Kissin (Heidelberg): “Found in Translation.” N.Zabaras Historical Novel The Eternal Wheel and its Russian Translation

1.30 pm
Close reading (W. Grossman, D. Bergelson, I. Fefer)

2.30 pm

Lutz Gunkel (Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Mannheim): (Soviet) Yiddish Grammar. A Sketch from a Comparative Linguistic Perspective
Peter Meyer (Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Mannheim): Macro- and microdiachronic probes into the dynamics of the Yiddish lexicon: language contact with German and East Slavic

4.00 pm
Close reading (M. Shapiro)

5.15 pm
Location: Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 31, 93053 Regensburg

Departure to the university library and exhibition tour: “Kürbis, Kätzchen, kecke Kinder: Der jiddische Kinderbuchautor Leyb Kvitko”

Friday, 29 Sep 2023
Location: UR Sedanstraße 1, Seminarraum 041

9.00 am

Gennadi Estraikh (New York University): presentation / keynote “Soviet Translations of American Yiddish Authors”

10.30 am
Close reading (D. Hofshteyn)

11.30 am
Final remarks, closing ceremony