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The Poetry of Chaim Grade – Live on Zoom
Joshua Price | Delivered in Yiddish.
This lecture will provide an overview of the poetry of Chaim Grade (1910-1982). Though he is known today as one of the greatest postwar Yiddish prose writers (and justifiably so), he also published ten volumes of poetry which deal with the most pressing issues of his life and times: departing the world of the Mussar yeshiva and entering a world “already descending from its cross”; the imperative to create his “own yizkor book” in none other than his “tortured Yiddish tongue”; and the rise of his “quiet Holy City,” Jerusalem, in the old-new Israel. Grade’s poems will be read with the help of Grade himself, on the basis of his archive at YIVO and an interview with Avrom Tabatshnik (1955).
About the Speaker
Joshua Price is a Senior Lector in Yiddish at Yale and has been teaching in the YIVO Summer Program since 2018. He received his Ph.D. in Yiddish Studies at Columbia University (2020) with a dissertation on the translation of world literature into Yiddish in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work has appeared in In geveb, Jews and Slavs, and Afn shvel. He is currently at work on a study of Yiddish and/as world literature for the forthcoming edited volume Cambridge History of Yiddish Literature.
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