Russian Jewish Cultural Continuity in the Diaspora

Our First Conference (Bath) Archive	Gained in Translation  Translations and their Influence upon the Continuity of Russian Jewish Culture in the West between the World Wars Third Interdisciplinary International Conference of the Network 21-22 September 2009 Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies University College London Gower Street London  WC1E 6BY Monday, September 21 – UCL Cruciform Building, Foyer Seminar Room 1 1 pm Sandwiches 1.15 Introduction: François Guesnet (UCL) 1.30 Keynote Lecture Aminadav Dykman (Jerusalem): On the History of Translation into Hebrew 2.00 – 2.30 Discussion 2.30 – 3.30 pm Panel I – Chair: Glenda Abramson (Oxford) Anat Feinberg (Heidelberg): Bialik's Translation of Schiller's “Wilhelm Tell” (1923) Marianna Prigozhina (Berlin): Bialik's Translation of “Don Quixote” 3.30 – 4.00 Discussion 4.00 – 4.30 Coffee Break 4.30 – 5.30 Panel II – Chair: Olga Tabachnikova (Bath / Bristol) Jörg Schulte (UCL / Bath): Translating Poetic Metre – Notes on the Prosody of Saul Tchernichowsky Hamutal Bar-Yosef (Tel Aviv): Isaac Babel in Hebrew Translation 5.30 – 6.00 Discussion 7 pm Dinner at Chutney’s Indian Vegetarian Restaurant (104 Drummond Street) Tuesday, September 22 – UCL Cruciform Building, Foyer Seminar Room 1 10.00 – 11.00 Panel III – Chair: François Guesnet (UCL) Albert Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan-University): The Russian Background of Elias Bickerman's Histories of the Maccabees. Die Makkabäer (Berlin 1935) and Der Gott der Makkabäer (Berlin 1937) Menahem Brinker (Tel Aviv): The Influence of the Narodniki on Hebrew Literature 11.00 – 11.30 Discussion 11.30 – 12.30 Panel IV – Chair: Peter Wagstaff (Bath) Andrej Boguen (Hamburg): The Influence of Translations upon the Poetry of Dovid Knut Marta Suchańska (Poznań): Elegy and Idyll in Polish-Jewish and Hebrew Poetry after 1917 12.30 – 1 pm Discussion 1.00 – 2.00 Lunch Break 2.15 – 3.00 Michael Berkowitz (UCL): Bringing Complexity to the Masses. The Translation Projects of Leopold Godowsky & Son 3.00 – 3.30 Concluding discussion: Summary and Further Perspectives / Coffee 4.00 – 6.00 Warburg Institute (Lecture Room): Concert and Lecture Jascha Nemtsov (Berlin): Jewish Music in the Works of East-European Jewish Composers The Conference Flyer (pdf) can be downloaded here, the Call for Papers for this conference can be found here, and a selected bibliography on the topic (rtf) can be downloaded here.
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