Scottsboro in Yiddish Poetry: Between Pogroms and Lynchings (in Yiddish), with Amelia Glaser

This year’s offering in Stanford University’s Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series features Amelia Glaser, whose topic is

סקאָטסבאָראָ אין ייִדישע לידער: צװישן פּאָגראָמען און לינטשערײַ

“Scottsboro in Yiddish Poetry: Between Pogroms and Lynchings”

This free lecture is in Yiddish and available in person (lunch provided) also via Zoom. The lecture the following day is in English on a different subject and only in person.

Stanford alum and Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies at UC San Diego, Amelia Glaser, will deliver this year’s Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series. Glaser is the author of, among other books, the award-winning Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine (2020).