Time: Various
Event Host: Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures
What do Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Theodor Herzl, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Isaac Babel, Walter Benjamin, Ilya Ehrenburg, Leah Goldberg and Antoni Słonimski all have in common?
These Jewish writers all wrote feuilletons: entertaining essays, sketches, satires and stories that appeared “below the line” in newspapers. The feuilleton was a key site for discussions of national character, portraits of urban life, and cultural and aesthetic innovation and experimentation. This conference will explore feuilletons in many different languages and examine their connections to modern Jewish cultures.
Schedule:
October 21, 2018 4-6 p.m. 168 Dulles Hall
October 22, 2018, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Ohio Union - Hayes Cape Room
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