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"Excavating the life of Schachno Epstein, GRU agent in the Yiddish Press"

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Russian, East European and Eurasian Center
Location
306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St.)
Date
Mar 1, 2023   12:00 pm  
Speaker
Catherine Prendergast (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Contact
Danielle Sekel
E-Mail
dsekel2@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

This talk describes how Schachno Epstein, a man with five aliases whose most common name has been variously transliterated from Yiddish to English, slipped through the crack of history. Dr. Catherine Predergast, Professor of English, will discuss the Yiddish sources and Comintern files that record his remarkable and revealing life.


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