Session Details

Thursday, 28 December

198. Sholem Aleichem: His World, His Heirs

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Anthony, Loews

Program arranged by the American Association of Professors of Yiddish

Presiding: Nora Glickman, Queens Coll., City Univ. of New York

1. “Philip Roth’s Satire: The Plot against America and The Human Stain,” Elaine B. Safer, Univ. of Delaware, Newark

2. “Tentative Tates: Changing Roles of Fathers in the Fiction of Sholem Aleichem and Bernard Malamud,” Evelyn Avery, Towson Univ.

3. “Transformation and Memory: Sholem Aleichem and His Counterparts,” Naya Lekht, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

4. “Wendy Wasserstein, Old Money, New Money: Is It Good for the Jews?” Annette Schreiber Zilversmit, Long Island Univ., Brooklyn

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