Session Details

Monday, 28 December

242. Echoes and Silence: Aesthetic Dimensions of German-Hebrew Literary Encounters

1:45–3:00 p.m., Commonwealth Hall A2, Loews

A special session

Presiding: Leslie Morris, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities

1. “The German, the Hebrew: A Dramaturgical Encounter (Franz Rosenzweig and Channa Rowina),” Galili Shahar, Univ. of Pennsylvania

2. “Death, Gender, and Gesamtkunstwerk in Hebrew Literature: A. B. Yehoshua’s Five Seasons,” Michal Ben-Horin, Univ. of Florida

3. “Redemption from History? Speaking Hebrew in Contemporary German Literature,” Sebastian Wogenstein, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs

Respondent: Na’ama Rokem, Yale Univ.

For abstracts, write to wogenstein@uconn.edu after 25 Nov.

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