BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:191@jewishlifect.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231119T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231119T113000 DTSTAMP:20231102T211254Z URL:https://jewishlifect.org/events/speaker-series-the-soviet-jewish-books helf-its-authors-and-readers-prof-marat-grinberg/ SUMMARY:SPEAKER SERIES: "The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Its Authors and Reade rs\," Prof. Marat Grinberg DESCRIPTION:Professor Marat Grinberg and “The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: It s Authors and Readers”\n\nFrequently subject to quotas and varying degre es of discrimination\, Soviet Jews\, still participated fully within the l arge society and had to abide by its rules... at times shaping these very rules from their professional and intellectual positions. Most were secula r\, with Russians as their native or primary tongues and with no or very l ittle knowledge of Judaic practice\, which the state firmly opposed as it did any other religion. Without spaces to gather or material culture to ho ld on to\, cultural memory practices and thought were formed and dissemina ted on the page\, often "between the lines." Professor Grinberg will expla in how Soviet “Jewishness” developed from historical fiction\, Yiddish and Hebrew translations and Russian novels with subterranean context that remained in Soviet Jewish private libraries.\n\nMarat Grinberg immigrated to the US from Ukraine in 1993. Professor Grinberg came to Reed College i n 2006 and is a\nProfessor of Russian and Humanities Comparative Literatur e. He received his BA's in Comparative Literature from\nColumbia Universit y and in Modern Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary of Ame rica in 1999\, and his\nPh.D. in Comparative Literature from the Universit y of Chicago in 2006. \; He is a specialist in 20 th  \;century Ru ssian\nliterature and culture\, with an emphasis on Soviet poetry\, modern Jewish literature\, culture\, and politics\, and post-war\nEuropean and A merican cinema. He is currently working on a study of the Holocaust in Rus sian\, Ukrainian and East\nEuropean fiction. \;\n\nJoin us1\n\nWith gr atitude to Gloria and Marty Greenstein and the Rene Bloch Foundation for t heir generous support.\n\n[gravityform id="3" title="true" description="tr ue"]\n\n \; END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR