‘Wonder-Woods’ — The Ecologies of Avrom Sutzkever, Poet and Partisan

The Chicago YIVO Society is pleased to co-sponsor this exciting panel on the Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, organized by the University of Chicago as part of the Yiddish Ecologies Conference series. The April 7 panel, to be held on ZOOM, will feature presentations exploring ecological thought and image in the work of visionary poet and partisan fighter Avrom Sutzkever (1913-2010).

Speakers and topics will include:

Eva Hückmann, “Sutzkever’s Siberia as a mythical assemblage: An ecocriticist reading of ‘Sibir’ (1936)”

Karolina Koprowska (Institute of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków), “Onem shney vet kalt zayn in der flamiker medine. Displaced Landscapes in the Post-Khurbn Poetry of Avrom Sutzkever”

Kate Brackney (Leiden University), “Beyond Bearing Witness: Oceans, Ethers, and Hybrid Creatures in Early Art and Literature of Holocaust Remembrance”

Rachel A. Martin (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), “Remixing Place: Translating Ecologies and the Imprint of Africa in Avrom Sutzkever’s Poetic Landscapes”