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In the Cities of Slaughter: Reading Bialik After October 7

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Monday, October 21, 2024
4pm to 5:30pm PT

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Building 360, Conference room
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), 450 Jane Stanford Way Building 360, Stanford, CA 94305
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A roundtable wrestling with the interplay between literature and contemporary horror, featuring:

  • Peter Cole, MacArthur Fellow and visiting professor at Yale whose translation of the poetry of Hayyim Nahman Bialik will soon be published by New York Review Books
  • Vered Shemtov, Faculty Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies now at work on a study of poetic rage and the Kishinev pogrom of 1903
  • Steven J. Zipperstein, Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford, whose last book "Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History" will soon appear in Hebrew and French translations.

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