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Animality in Yiddish Arts and Literature

Speaker: Anna Elena Torres (University of Chicago)
Monday, March 9, 2026
4:00-6:00 PM
East Conference Room Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Map
Anna Elena Torres is the author of Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature (Yale University Press, 2024), A Bear Flew By: Animality in Yiddish Arts and Literature (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming), and the co-editor of With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism (University of Illinois Press, 2023). Their work has appeared in The Oxford Handbook of Queer Modernisms, Prooftexts, Jewish Quarterly Review, Nashim, make/shift: a journal of feminisms in motion, In geveb, Comparative Literature, and elsewhere. Torres’ collaborative art practice includes work as a muralist, contributor to the Yiddishland Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2022), and commissioned artist by the POLIN Museum, Warsaw.
Building: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
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Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: Humanities, Jewish Studies, Language
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Judaic Studies