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Jews and Ukrainians in Russia's Literary Borderlands: Seminary with Amelia Glaser (UC San Diego)

2012-13 Teller Chair Seminar: Jewish Literature

Jews and Ukrainians in Russia's Literary Borderlands
A seminar with Amelia Glaser (UC San Diego)
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
12:00 noon
Humanities Gateway Room 1010

Lunch will be provided for free if you RSVP for this event by sending a note to
UCIJewishStudies@gmail.com by November 20.

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries, Jews, Ukrainians, Poles,
and Russians lived together in the territory known as the Pale of Settlement, a region
of Eastern Europe that now covers much of Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic States.
Although these communities spoke different languages, followed distinct cultural
habits, and practiced different religions, members of these communities did meet at
markets and fairs. The stories that Jewish, Russian, and Ukrainian writers tell about
these marketplace encounters help us to understand a complex history of
coexistence and antagonism in the nineteenth century and after. Amelia Glaser will
be discussing Jewish-Slavic relations, as told through stories of these marketplace
encounters by Nikolai Gogol, Hrihorii Kvitka, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel and
others. She will base her talk on her recent book, Jews and Ukrainians in Russia's
Literary Borderlands: From the Shtetl Fair to the Petersburg Bookshop.

Amelia Glaser is an associate professor of Russian and comparative literature at the
University of California, San Diego, and is currently the director of Russian and
Soviet Studies at UCSD. In addition to Jews and Ukrainians (Northwestern U. Press,
2012), she is the translator of a collection of American Yiddish poets, Proletpen:
America's Rebel-Yiddish Poets (U. of Wisconsin Press, 2005), which recently
appeared in paperback. She is currently editing a collected volume of essays on
literary representations of the Cossack uprisings of 1648, as well as a book about
American Yiddish poets from Eastern Europe. Professor Glaser grew up in Northern
California, received a BA from Oberlin College, an MA in Yiddish from the University
of Oxford, and a Ph.D in Comparative Literature from Stanford University.

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