Remembering Benjamin Harshav

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Join us to celebrate the life and work of Benjamin Harshav (1928-2015), eminent translator, poet, and scholar of Hebrew and Yiddish literature. Born Benjamin Hrushovski in Vilna in 1928, Harshav wrote acclaimed works on Jewish culture, as well as poetry in Hebrew and Yiddish. In 1967, Harshav created the Department of Poetics and Comparative Literature at Tel Aviv University and in 1987, Harshav became the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Yale University, where he was recognized as a brilliant teacher. In this program, family, friends, colleagues, and students gather to pay tribute to Harshav’s life and legacy.

Speakers

Barbara Harshav, family, renowned translator of Hebrew and Yiddish poetry

Hannan Hever, Jacob & Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language & Literature, Yale University

Michael Holquist, Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus, Yale University

Bella Meyer, granddaughter of Marc Chagall (Meyer will not attend in person due to her travel schedule; remarks will be read on her behalf.)

Joshua Price, graduate student in Yiddish Studies, Columbia University

Alexandra Shatskikh, art historian, writer and world authority on the Russian avant-garde

Roman Utkin, Assistant Professor in Russian Studies at Davidson College