"Jewish Modernism in Early Twentieth-Century Europe: Languages, Trends, Politics"

Keynote lecture by UM Professors Schachar Pinsker and Mikhail Krutikov, "Comparing Modernism: The Case of Hebrew and Yiddish"; presentations by UM graduate students Alexandra Hoffman, Oren Segal, Orian Zakai, Sara Feldman; papers by Kalman Weiser (York University), Gennady Estraikh (New York University), Harriet Murray (U Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Allison Schachter (Vanderbilt University), Na’ama Roken (University of Chicago), Maya Barzilai (University of Michigan). Co-sponsored by the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Department of Comparative Literature’s “Year of Comparison.”