Archive of Violence: Neighbors, Strangers, and Creatures in Itsik Kipnis's "Months and Days"

press release: 206 Ingraham Hall. Feb 22 4:00-5:30 pm 

Speaker:

Harriet Murav, Halls Visiting Scholar and Professor, Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  

Murav's new project, Archive of Violence: Neighbors, Creatures, and the Witness Literature of the Russian Civil War, explores the strangeness of neighborly relations, enacted both in violence and reconciliation. The talk examines both kinds of relations in one of the most important witness texts of the time, Itsik Kipnis's 1926 Yiddish novel Months and Days (Khadoshim un teg).