Ellen Cassedy - "On the Landing" - Jessica Kirzane
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Ellen Cassedy discusses "On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash" with Jessica Kirzane
About the book: Yenta Mash (1922-2013) was a giant among women writing in Yiddish. Drawn from her own tumultuous life, her stories trace an arc across continents, across upheavals and regime changes, and across the phases of a woman’s life from girlhood to old age. Mash documents a lost world of Eastern European Jewish life, Siberian exile, Soviet Moldova, and the challenges of immigrant life in Israel. Translated for the first time by Ellen Cassedy, Mash’s stories are keenly relevant to our times, when displaced people seek refuge across the globe.
About the translator: Translator Ellen Cassedy won a 2018 award from the Modern Language Association for "Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel" (with co-translator Yermiyahu Ahron Taub). She is the author of "We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust."
About the interlocutor: Jessica Kirzane is the lecturer in Yiddish at the University of Chicago. She is the Editor-in-Chief of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. Kirzane was a 2018-2019 Pedagogy Fellow and a 2017-2018 Translation Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center. Her translation of Miriam Karpilove's Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle Against Free Love (Syracuse University Press), is forthcoming this fall.
Event Location:
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL
60615
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Paperback | $16.95 | 9780875807935
A Yiddish Book Center Translation In these sixteen stories, available in English for the first time, prize-winning author Yenta Mash traces an arc across continents, across upheavals and regime changes, and across the phases of a woman's life. Mash's protagonists are often in transit,...