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In the Cities of Slaughter: Reading Bialik After October 7

Date
Mon October 21st 2024, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Event Sponsor
History Department
Taube Center for Jewish Studies
Location
Building 360
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), 450 Jane Stanford Way Building 360, Stanford, CA 94305
Conference room

A roundtable wrestling with the interplay between literature and contemporary horror, featuring:

  • Peter Cole, MacArthur Fellow and visiting professor at Yale whose translation of the poetry of Hayyim Nahman Bialik will soon be published by New York Review Books
  • Vered Shemtov, Faculty Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies now at work on a study of poetic rage and the Kishinev pogrom of 1903
  • Steven J. Zipperstein, Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford, whose last book "Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History" will soon appear in Hebrew and French translations.

Open to the public.