The Program in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley is
proud to sponsor The 3rd Annual Berkeley Yiddish Conference
Fartaytsht un Farbesert: Translation and Yiddish Culture
23 - 24 May 2005 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Schedule of Events
May 23, 2005 10:15am
Welcome - Allison Schachter, UC Berkeley
Opening Remarks
John Efron, UC Berkeley
I. 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Yiddish and Hebrew
Panel Chair: Yael Chaver, UC Berkeley
Rechov Itzik Manger: Itzik Manger and Yiddish literature in Israel
Naomi Brenner, UC Berkeley
The Porous Boundaries between Yiddish and Hebrew
Barbara Harshav, Yale University
To Write in a Silent Language: The Bilingualism of Yossl Birshtein
Shachar Pinsker, University of Michigan
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II. 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. European Literature in Yiddish Translation
Panel Chair: John Efron, UC Berkeley
James Joyce's Yiddish Modernism, Translation, and the Jews
Rachel Rubinstein, Hampshire College
Shakespeare in Yiddish: Y.Y. Schwartz's Hamlet
Michael Stanislawski, Columbia University
Sherlock Holmes in the Shtetl: How European Literature Was Read in the Pale
Jeffrey Veidlinger, Indiana University
4:00 p.m. Film: Voyages. France 1999, (11 min.) Dir.: Emmanuel Finkiel
May 24, 2005
III. 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Translation and the Boundaries of Jewish
Culture
Panel Chair: Jordan Finkin, UC Berkeley
Burying the Books: The Death of an Intertextual Possibility in the Fiction
of Dvora Baron
Sheila Jelen, University of Maryland
Yung-Vilne's Funny Man: Ventriloquism, Adaptation, and Parody in Leyzer Volf
Justin Cammy, Smith College
IV. 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. The Social Boundaries of Translation
Panel Chair: Eli Katz, UC Berkeley
Cultural and Political Liminalities in Megiles Ester,Targum sheni, and Old
Yiddish Purim-shpil
Jerold Frakes, University of Southern California
Yiddish Literature's Neglected Stepchildren: Chaim Zhitlovsky and the
Merits of Translation
Matt Hoffman, Franklin & Marshall College
On the Other Side of the Poem: Translating Women Yiddish Poets
Kathryn Hellerstein, University of Pennsylvania
V. 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Translation and Mobility
Panel Chair: Allison Schachter, UC Berkeley
Shvartsbard's Gilgulim: Translations and Transmigrations of Alter Kacyzne's
Last Play
Robert Adler Peckerar, UC Berkeley/NYBC
The Anxiety of Translation: Yankev Glatshetyn's "Good Night, World" in America
Anita Norich, University of Michigan
Every Free Man Has Two Homelands: A Parable on Yiddish and Translation
Naomi Seidman, GTU
Free Admission
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