Presented by The Workers Circle
Intermediate Literature with Leyzer Burko: Glatstein's Yidishtaytshn
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Tuesday, 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET: Feb. 24, Mar. 10, 17, 24, 31, Apr. 14, 21, 28, May 5, 12
Course Goals: Jacob Glatstein was such a great poet that even people who are normally deaf to poetry enjoy his work. A member of the "Introspectivists" (Inzikhistn), his writing was more fun and experimental in the interwar period, before he began to think of himself as a national poet with a responsibility to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. His volume Yidishtaytshn (1937) is his most experimental—yet the language itself is not difficult.
Course Tools: We will read and enjoy Yidishtaytshn, and hear some recordings of Glatstein himself.
Additional Info: This course is taught entirely in Yiddish, though students are free to ask for English explanations.
Tuesday, 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET: Feb. 24, Mar. 10, 17, 24, 31, Apr. 14, 21, 28, May 5, 12
Course Goals: Jacob Glatstein was such a great poet that even people who are normally deaf to poetry enjoy his work. A member of the "Introspectivists" (Inzikhistn), his writing was more fun and experimental in the interwar period, before he began to think of himself as a national poet with a responsibility to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. His volume Yidishtaytshn (1937) is his most experimental—yet the language itself is not difficult.
Course Tools: We will read and enjoy Yidishtaytshn, and hear some recordings of Glatstein himself.
Additional Info: This course is taught entirely in Yiddish, though students are free to ask for English explanations.