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SUMMARY:Zionism in Translation: Encounters in the German-Hebrew Archive
DESCRIPTION:Zionism in Translation concerns exchanges—primarily of letters but also drafts\, reviews\, and other ephemera—sent to or from Jerusalem in the decades around 1948. All were written in German and Hebrew by a fascinating range of literary figures\, including Hannah Arendt\, Gershom Scholem\, Yehuda Amichai\, Ludwig Strauss\, Erich Auerbach\, Walter Benjamin\, Leah Goldberg\, Peter Szondi\, Paul Celan\, and Tuvia Ruebner. The writers discussed in the book contend with the genocidal violence that brought the rich historical relation between German and Hebrew to a seeming end. They also grapple\, in different ways\, with the new reality in Israel/Palestine in the wake of the founding of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba. The bilingual conversation that crosses over between German and Hebrew in these letters thus centers around the question of Jewish fate in the twentieth century and is immersed in negotiations about Jewish nationalism\, the Zionist movement\, and the possibilities of Jewish poetry. In the space between German and Hebrew\, Rokem argues\, the protagonists of her story voice ambivalences and hesitancies not found elsewhere. \nNa’ama Rokem is Associate Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago\, where she has directed the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies and chaired the department of Comparative Literature. Her first book\, Prosaic Conditions: Heinrich Heine and the Spaces of Zionist Literature was published by Northwestern University Press in 2013. \nThursday\, October 1\, 2025 • 306 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nNa’ama Rokem (University of Chicago)\nModerator: William Schniedewind (UCLA)\nZionism in Translation: Encounters in the German-Hebrew Archive\nSady & Ludwig Kahn Book Talk in German Jewish Studies
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/zionism-in-translation-encounters-in-the-german-hebrew-archive/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sady and Ludwig Kahn Program in German Jewish Studies
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SUMMARY:Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art – Sarah Phillips Casteel
DESCRIPTION:In a little-known chapter of World War II\, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization\, forced sterilization\, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration\, Black writers and visual artists have preserved the stories of these forgotten victims of the Third Reich. Their works of memoir\, poetry\, fiction\, painting and photomontage illuminate both the relationship between creativity and wartime survival and the role of art in the formation of collective memory. Probing the boundaries of Holocaust memory and representation\, this talk draws attention to a largely unrecognized artistic corpus that challenges the erasure of Black wartime history. \nSarah Phillips Casteel is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Professor of English at Carleton University. She has written and co-edited five books\, the most recent of which is Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art (Columbia University Press\, 2024). She has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Vienna and Potsdam and visiting fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg. The recipient of a Canadian Jewish Literary Award and a Polanyi Prize\, she is a member of the Academic Council of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University. \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/black-lives-under-nazism-making-history-visible-in-literature-and-art-sarah-phillips-casteel-2/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sady and Ludwig Kahn Program in German Jewish Studies
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