ZfL INFO 57/2023: Yiddish and Translation: Linguistic, Cultural and Political Aspects (the Soviet Case and Beyond)
Workshop
27 Sep 2023 – 29 Sep 2023
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: 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): A comparative sketch of Yiddish and New High German sentence syntax. With an outlook on specific features of Soviet Yiddish
- 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