Activity Type:
Lecture
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Presenter:
Sasha Senderovich (University of Washington in Seattle)
Date:
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 - 17:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
William Pitt Union, Room 548
Sasha Senderovich will discuss his new book, "How the Soviet Jew Was Made", which offers a close reading of postrevolutionary Yiddish and Russian-language literature and film that recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity. Senderovich urges us to see the Soviet Jew anew, as not only a member of a minority group, but also a particular kind of liminal being.
UCIS Unit:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Other Pitt Sponsors:
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Jewish Studies Program
Is Event Already in University Calendar?:
No
Pitt Undergrads:
4
Pitt Grad Students:
4