PANEL DISCUSSION | Reading Yiddish Literature in a Time of National Reckoning, moderated by Rachel Rubinstein from moment magazine yiddish Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 43 min 72 sec ✓ Published: 16-Oct-2020
Description: Generations of Yiddish writers described racial injustice in America, their adopted home, taking on slavery, lynching, segregation, and everyday casual racism as literary subjects. America is once again confronting its long history and present reality of racial violence in a renewed wave of protests and calls for justice. What can the Yiddish writing of previous generations of protest reveal to us about our own moment? Join our panel of translators and scholars in a conversation about race and s
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