The 1943 Trial in Krasnodar and the Execution of a Shoah Poem (I. Selvinsky, A. Tolstoy, K. Simonov and the Literary Debates about Capital Punishment)
by Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston College)
(the lecture will be given in English)
Monday, May 27, 14:30-16:00
Mt. Scopus, Media 32
Maxim D. Shrayer is Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College. He is the author of over twenty-five books of criticism, biography, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry and the recipient of a National Jewish Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Shrayer’s recent books include the memoir Immigrant Baggage and the poetry collections Stikhi iz aipada (Poems from the iPad) and Kinship. His works have been translated into eleven languages. The Hebrew translation of Shrayer’s book I SAW IT: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah was recently published by Yad Vashem.