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

• workshop program [PDF]

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