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Program Activities & Sample Reading List

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

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