Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Between the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftist poets reached out to other embattled peoples of the earth― African Americans, Spanish Republicans, and others―in Yiddish verse. In her new book Songs in Dark Times Amelia Glaser examines the richly layered meanings of this project, grounded in Jewish collective trauma but embracing a global community of the oppressed.

Amelia Glaser is a professor of comparative literature at the University of California at San Diego. Her authored and edited books include: Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets; Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising; Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands; and Songs from Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine.

More information and event registration here.