Until fairly recently, Israeli literature was understood as essentially monolingual, created exclusively in Hebrew. In the last few years, scholars have turned their attention to the many languages in which literature was, and still is written in Israel. The symposium will bring Institute fellows and leading scholars to explore Israel literature written in Yiddish, Arabic, German, Russian, and English, as well as the interplay between these languages and Hebrew. The speakers will explore issues such as translation and self-translation, the politics of language in literature, and the historical shifts that enabled or restricted inter-linguistic contacts.
Participants:
Maya Barzilai, University of Michigan
Naomi Brenner, Ohio State University
Adriana Jacobs, University of Oxford
Yael Kenan, University of Michigan
Lital Levy, Princeton University
Alex Moshkin, University of Pennsylvania
Shachar Pinsker, University of Michigan
Rachel Seelig, University of Chicago
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