Virtual Talk | FROM THE VILNA GHETTO TO NUREMBERG

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On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, join Indigo Books & Music, the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto, and McGill-Queen’s University Press for a a distinguished panel discussion of the newly released From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg, a riveting account of life and death in the Holocaust by Abraham Stuzkever, one of the great Yiddish poets of the twentieth century.

Anna Shternshis, Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish Studies at the University of Toronto, and author of When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin (Oxford UP)

Kalman Weiser, Silber Family Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at York University, and co-editor of Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism (Palgrave Macmillan)

Francine Hirsch, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and author of Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal After World War II (Oxford UP)

Justin Cammy, Professor of Jewish Studies and World Literatures at Smith College, and translator and editor of Abraham Sutzkever, From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2021)

ABOUT THE BOOK

A riveting account of life and death in the Vilna Ghetto by one of the great Yiddish poets of the twentieth century.

In 1944, the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow from the forest where he had spent the winter among partisan fighters. There he was encouraged by Ilya Ehrenburg, the most famous Soviet Jewish writer of his day, to write a memoir of his two years in the Vilna Ghetto. Now, seventy-five years after it appeared in Yiddish in 1946, Justin Cammy provides a full English translation of one of the earliest published memoirs of the destruction of the city known throughout the Jewish world as the Jerusalem of Lithuania.