The Ukrainian-Jewish Looking Glass, with Amelia Glaser

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

 “The Ukrainian-Jewish Looking Glass: Dovid Hofshteyn’s Soviet Yiddish Translations of Taras Shevchenko”

This free lecture is in English. The lecture the previous day is in Yiddish on a different subject.

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).