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About the talk: Sasha Senderovich will discuss his new book, How the Soviet Jew Was Made (Harvard University Press, 2022 and finalist for the 2023 National Jewish Book Award). How the Soviet Jew Was Made offers a close reading of postrevolutionary Yiddish and Russian-language literature and film that recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity. Senderovich traces protagonists traversing space and history and carrying with them the dislodged practices and archetypes of a Jewish world in the process of transformation. Senderovich urges us to see the Soviet Jew anew, as not only a member of a minority group but also a particular kind of liminal being.
About the Author: Sasha Senderovich is Associate Professor of Slavic, Jewish, and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of How the Soviet Jew Was Made (Harvard University Press, 2022). With Harriet Murav, he translated the Yiddish writer David Bergelson’s novel Judgment; the translator pair's current project, In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union, has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is expected from Stanford University Press in 2026.
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