As the Dust of the Earth: Abandonment in Law, War, and Poetry
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center, Department of Comparative and World Literature, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
- Location
- Levis Faculty Center 210 (919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801)
- Date
- Oct 14, 2024 5:00 pm
- Speaker
- Harriet Murav
- Cost
- Free and open to the public
- Contact
- Anastasiia Strakhova
- as261@illinois.edu
- Views
- 73
From 1918 to 1922 as many as 40,000 Jews were killed in the pogroms of the Russian Civil War. The mass violence in Ukraine was part of a global phenomenon of ethnic and racial violence, which also included the Armenian genocide, and anti-Black violence in the United States. This book talk examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the pogroms and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of catastrophe and the documentation of catastrophe and care.