We are pleased to invite you to the public lecture by Prof. Justin Cammy (Smith College, USA) "Between Art and Politics: Young Yiddish Writing in 1930s Vilnius".
Copyright: Leisa Thompson
The lecture will take place on Monday, 10 February at 17:00 in the J. Balkevičius Auditorium, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University.
Justin Cammy is a literary and cultural historian of Yiddish, Professor of Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature at Smith College (Mass.), one of the most prominent contemporary researchers of Yiddish Modernism. In recent years, Prof. Cammy's research has focused on the work of the Yung Vilne group of writers and artists, the work of A. Sutzkever, E. Vogler, M. Levin, and the formation of other Jewish avant-garde groups in East Central Europe. Cammy’s critical edition and translation of Abraham Sutzkever’s "From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg" (McGill-Queen’s UP) received the 2022 Leviant Prize in Yiddish Studies from the Modern Language Association. Last year, a Lithuanian translation of this book appeared (Hubris, 2024).
In a public lecture, Prof. Cammy will present the latest research on interwar Vilnius Jewish modernism and the avant-garde magazine "Yung Vilne".