Sample Daily Schedule:
9:00–10:30 a.m. Introduction to Avrom Sutzkever’s life, cultural context, and work
10:30–11:00 a.m. Coffee break
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Literature seminar on poetry and memoir of Avrom Sutzkever
12:30–1:30 p.m. Lunch
2:00–3:00 p.m. Small group discussions on Sutzkever or small group discussions of selected stories by Yenta Mash
3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Coffee break
3:30–5:00 p.m. Lecture: Yiddish culture on the eve of the Holocaust
6:00–7:00 p.m. Dinner
7:00–8:00 p.m. Film screening: Ver vet blaybn - Who Will Remain?
Sample Reading List
Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive by Samuel D. Kassow
Warsaw Testament by Rokhl Auerbach, translated by Samuel D. Kassow
Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish by Hannah Pollin-Galay
From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg by Abraham Sutzkever, translated by Justin Cammy
In the Land of the Postscript: The Complete Short Stories of Chava Rosenfarb, translated by Goldie Morgentaler
Paper Bridges: Selected Poems Kadya Molodowsky, translated by Kathryn Hellerstein
Questions?
Contact Jennifer Young, education program manager, at 413-256-4900, ext. 142