Yiddish Travel Writing

Event Start Date: March 20, 2018 12:00 PM
Event End Date: March 20, 2018 1:00 PM

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Presented by: Mariusz Kałczewiak
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Judaica Suite, 12:00 p.m.

Kałczewiak takes his audience to South America of the early twentieth century. Focusing on the work of the Yiddish author Peretz Hirshbein, Kałczewiak explores how Yiddish literature, especially travel literature, contributed to the construction of cultural ties between Europe and the Americas. A Polish scholar, Kałczewiak earned his doctorate at Tel Aviv University and continues his research as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Potsdam in Germany. The Price collection’s rich offerings in South American Yiddish records, including the writings by Hirschbein, support Kałczewiak’s inquiry about modern Yiddish literary tropes bridging continents and probing the modern Jewish immigrant experience in the Americas.

This event is part of the Jews in the Americas Speaker Series.