Bilingualism
in Modern Hebrew Literature
and Jewish Literatures
Wednesday, May 1st - Lectures (in English)
9:00am - 9:45am Gathering and Breakfast
9:45am - 10:00am Greetings
10:00am - 10:45am Adam Rovner, University of Denver
Manufacturing the Universal: Israel in North American Fiction
11:00am - 11:45am Thomas Connolly , Yale University
Dreams, Knots: Reading David Rokeah with Paul Celan
12:00pm - 12:45pm Sunny Yudkoff, University of Wisconsin
Foaming at the Mouth: Rabies, Melancholia and Hebrew-Yiddish Bilingualism in S.Y Agnon’s Temol Shilsom
12:45pm - 2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00pm - 2:45pm Asaf Angermann, Yale University
The Arts of Hope and Failure: Benjamin, Celan, Szondi
3:00pm - 3:45pm Anton Shammas,University of Michigan
Can the Bilingual Speak?
Thursday, May 2nd - Workshops (in Hebrew)
9:00am - 9:30am Gathering and Breakfast
9:30am - 11:00am Adam Rovner, University of Denver
“It Wasn’t A Very Good Time for Hebrew”: The Hebrew Teacher by Maya Arad
11:15am-12:45pm Sunny Yudkoff, University of Wisconsin
זינג לאַדנינ א:Biligualism in the Poetry of Jacob Glatstein
12:45pm-1:30pm Lunch Break
1:30pm-3:00pm Anton Shammas, University of Michigan
Translation as a Form of “Revenge”: on translating into Hebrew a poem by Taha Muhammad Ali
3:15pm-4:00pm Hannan Hever, Yale University
Concluding Remarks: The Politics of Diglosia
Workshop Conveners:
Prof. Hannan Hever (Yale University)
Prof. Adam Rovner (University of Denver)
Prof. Anton Shammas (University of Michigan)
Prof. Sunny Yudkoff (University of Wisconsin)
Organized by: Prof. Hannan Hever
Coordinators: Lital Abazon, Ariel Pridan, Renee Reed
Venue: Bingham Hall, Comparative Literature Library (8th floor)