Events for January 27, 2017
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1:00 pm
“From Right to Left and Left to Right: Translating Yiddish Poetry”
Free
Abigail Gillman (Boston University) presents Kathryn Hellerstein (University of Pennsylvania) and poet and translator Richard Fein in a session devoted to translating Yiddish poetry. The event forms part of Boston University's Literary Translation Seminar. Kathryn Hellerstein is the author most recently of A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987 (2016) and Richard Fein is […]
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