Oct
7
9:30pm
Bilingual Reading Series: Central European Jewish Writing
By ALTA
Annual Alexis Levitin Bilingual Reading Series: Central European Jewish Writing
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub (www.yataub.net) is the author of six books of poetry and two books of fiction, including Beloved Comrades: A Novel in Stories. His most recent translation from the Yiddish is May God Avenge Their Blood: A Holocaust Memoir Triptych by Rachmil Bryks.
Miriam Isaacs holds a PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University. She has published on Yiddish culture and literature and taught at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Julian Levinson is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan. His publications include Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture and articles on Jewish storytelling, poetry, and film. He recently translated Isaiah Spiegel’s Flames from the Earth, a Yiddish novel about the Holocaust.
Ottilie Mulzet translates from Hungarian and Mongolian. Her translation of Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai was awarded the National Book Award in Translated Literature for 2019, and her translation of Krasznahorkai’s Seiobo There Below won the Best Translated Book Award in 2014.
Gábor Schein is one of the most important writers to emerge in post 1989 Hungary. His works in English include Lazarus, translated by Ottilie Mulzet (Seagull Books, 2016); his novel Autobiographies of an Angel, also translated by Mulzet, will be published by Yale University Press in late 2021.
Maia Evrona is a poet, prose writer, and translator of Yiddish poetry. She was a 2019 ALTA Travel Fellow and has received fellowships in translation from the NEA and the Yiddish Book Center. Her own poetry was recently supported with the inaugural joint Spain-Greece Fulbright Scholar Award.
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