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Chaim Grade’s Sons and Daughters

Hosted By: YIVO

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and 92NY Bronfman Center for Jewish Life present a discussion of Chaim Grade’s newly translated novel, “Sons and Daughters.” Set in 1930s Poland, the novel captures a Jewish world caught between tradition and modernity, portraying the tensions within the Katzenellenbogen family as secular influences encroach on shtetl life. This event features translator Rose Waldman, editor Todd Portnowitz, literary critic Adam Kirsch, and scholar Justin Cammy in conversation about Grade’s literary legacy.

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Adam Kirsch

Adam Kirsch is the author of three collections of poetry, five books of criticism and two biographies. Long the poetry critic at the New Republic, he now is an editor of The Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Review section and a contributing editor at Tablet.
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Justin Cammy

A literary and cultural historian with research and teaching interests in Yiddish literature, Eastern European Jewish history, and Zionism and contemporary Israel, Justin Cammy is director of the Program in Jewish Studies at Smith College in Massachusetts and summer director of the Naomi Prawer Kadar International Yiddish summer Program at Tel Aviv University. He holds a doctorate in Near Eastern languages and civilizations from Harvard University and a bachelor's in Middle Eastern studies from McGill University. In addition to his courses on Jewish literature, history and politics, Cammy has guided Smith students and alumnae abroad to study the religious and political history of Jerusalem, environmental challenges in Israel, the history and memory of Yiddishland, and Prague through the Ages. In recent years Cammy has served as research fellow at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem (2014); Webb Family Visiting Scholar at the Goldreich Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture at Tel Aviv University (2013–14); and Mellon Senior Scholar on the Holocaust and visiting professor of English at UCLA (2009). He is a regular guest faculty member at Yiddish summer programs at Tel Aviv University and the Yiddish Book Center. In 2006, Cammy was awarded Smith College’s Sherrerd Prize for Distinguished Teaching.
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The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is dedicated to the preservation and study of the history and culture of Eastern European Jewry and Yiddish language.
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