Poetic Transgression: Yiddish Women's Poetry Across Time and Space

We are excited to invite you to our second online lecture, as part of our 2023 Zhargon Speaker Series. This time we will be meeting with Dr. Zohar Weiman-Kelman, who will be discussing all things Yiddish, feminist, queer and poetic with us, on Sunday, March 26 at 10am via zoom.

This talk will explore Yiddish women's poems spanning 1929-1990, written between Eastern Europe and North America. Through queer readings invited by the poems and by our own current time and place, we will explore multiple modes of poetic transgression and potential modes for new connections.

Zohar Weiman-Kelman is a senior lecturer in the department of foreign literatures and linguistics at Ben-Gurion University. They received a PhD in comparative literature from the University of California Berkeley and have held fellowships at the University of Toronto and the University of Pennsylvania. Their first book, Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women’s Poetry, was published by SUNY Press in 2018.

Event Image: Cover of Queer Expectations (2018) with artwork by Rene Magritte (Lola De Valance), 1948.