Between the Nile and the Neva: St. Petersburg Multilingual Jewish Text

press release: 4:00 pm, (refreshments served beginning at 3:45), 206 Ingraham Hall

Mikhail Krutikov, Preston R. Tisch professor of Slavic and Judaic Studies and currently the chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

This talk will apply the concept of “Petersburg Text” to the multilingual corpus of Jewish writings about St. Petersburg/Leningrad. By exploring the intertextual dynamics of the image of St. Petersburg in the prose and poetry in Russian, Hebrew, and Yiddish, Professor Krutikov will provide new insights into the more general problem of modern multilingual Jewish literature.