Introduction to Modern Yiddish Culture (Karolina Szymaniak)

We cordially invite you to the course on modern Yiddish culture. The course will be conducted by Karolina Szymaniak, Ph.D. (University of Wroclaw). Sessions will be devoted to classical as well as contemporary writers and specific themes in literature as Nostalgia, Modernity and Gender.

For application please contact Milan.Zonca@ff.cuni.cz by 23. 5. Suggested reading and syllabus will be provided.

The course is also open to students from other departments as well as Erasmus students.

Karolina Szymaniak is Assistant Professor at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland, where she heads the Yiddish Culture Center and at the Wrocław University (Jewish Studies Department). She is a researcher, editor, translator from Yiddish and English, and language instructor with a PhD in literary and cultural studies. Her research interests range across modern Jewish literatures and cultures, Polish-Jewish literary and cultural relations, the politics of memory, theories of modernism and of the avant-garde, women’s literature, and translation studies.

Pořádá Pražské centrum židovských studií FF UK.