Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

GrossmanClick Here to Read: Review of Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman By Adam Kirsch in The New Republic  on December 6, 2011.

Click Here to Read:  Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman; On a new translation of a novel that was smothered by the KGB.  Reviewed by Christopher Tayler in the The Guardian on May 21, 2010.

Click Here to Read:  A Writer at War by Vasily Grossman  Reviewed by Brendan Wolfe on the Quarterly Conversation website.

Click Here to Read: The Maximalist: on Vasily Grossman on the Berdichev Revival Website Courtesy:”The Nation’, by Jochen Hellbeck – December 2010.

 

IPA Prague Congress – Timetable, Working Parties, Gala Dinner, and other developments

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IPA CONGRESS BULLETIN, 

IPA CONGRESS PAPER DATABASE – PRAGUE PAPERS
The IPA has launched an interactive Congress Paper Database which works as a search engine for you to access many papers and presentations delivered at the Prague Congress. Records include complete papers, as well as some abstracts and summaries. To find a paper all you need to do is enter either the title, name of author, type of session or a key word (subject). All confidential papers have been excluded from the database. The papers can be downloaded as PDFs. Continue reading IPA Prague Congress – Timetable, Working Parties, Gala Dinner, and other developments

Translating Early 20th Century Yiddish Plays for 21st Century Audiences

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SUNDAY 23 JUNE 2013 11:30am-2:00pm
Translating Early 20th Century Yiddish Plays for 21st Century Audiences
Co-sponsored by the New Worlds Theater Project
TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

This hands-on translation workshop will feature New Worlds Theater Company’s Producing Artistic Director, Ellen Perecman, who will facilitate translation and discussion of short pieces from playwrights such as Hirshbein, Leivick, Ash, and Bimko. Continue reading Translating Early 20th Century Yiddish Plays for 21st Century Audiences

The 2013 Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska Prize at YIVO Awarded to Prof. Barbara Engelking

Barbara Engelking

The 2013 Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska Prize at YIVO Awarded to Prof. Barbara Engelking

Read the press release in Polish here.

The Award Committee of the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Award has the pleasure to announce that Prof. Barbara Engelking of Warsaw, Poland was named the receipient of this year’s prize. Endowed by Prof. Jan Karski at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in 1992, the $5,000 prize goes to authors of published works documenting Polish-Jewish relations and Jewish contributions to Polish culture. Continue reading The 2013 Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska Prize at YIVO Awarded to Prof. Barbara Engelking