Gabriella Safran presents Yiddish Humor and the Monologue at KlezCalifornia’s 2010 Yiddish Culture Festival.
We will read one of Sholem Aleichem’s short “Monologn” in Yiddish and English translation, and consider why these texts — with their famously irritating narrators — appealed to readers.
Bio:
(Mountain View) Gabriella Safran teaches Russian and some Yiddish literature at Stanford, where she belongs to the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and directs the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Her first book, Rewriting the Jew; Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire (Stanford, 2000), won three book prizes. She co-edited the volume, The Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian-Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century (Stanford, 2006). Her biography of the Russian and Yiddish writer, ethnographer, and revolutionary An-sky, tentatively titled, Restless Soul, is due out with Harvard University Press in 2010.
For more of Gabriella and her writing, please see:
http://fce.stanford.edu/people/gabriellasafran
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