Session Details

Thursday, 30 December

720. Celebrating Jewish Literature and 350 Years of Jewish Life in America

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Regency Ballroom C1, Loews

Program arranged by the American Association of Professors of Yiddish

Presiding: Evelyn Avery, Towson Univ.

1. “Journey to Chelm: Reading Nathan Englander’s ‘The Tumblers,’” Nikki Halpern, Univ. of Paris VII, Charles V

2. “Lilith Liveth: Twenty-Five Years of Feminist Fiction,” Julia Mazow, Houston, TX

3. “Tests of Trauma, Texts of Identity: The Narrative Legacy of Holocaust Survivor Stories in America,” Hannah Kliger, Penn State Univ., Abingdon

4. “The Many American and Jewish Faces of Edna Ferber,” Eileen H. Watts, Stern Hebrew High School

Close Window