[Jewish] Summer Program Announcement: Jewish Lithuania program in Vilnius

[Steven Nathan]

Summer Literary Seminars (SLS) is an independent literary and cultural 
program, one of the world's largest and most dynamic, held each year in 
St. Petersburg, Russia, and Nairobi, Kenya, among other locales. (Here 
is the URL: www.sumlitsem.org <http://www.sumlitsem.org/>.)
 
We are proud and delighted to be able to announce that our newest 
program, to be held in the capital city of Lithuania, Vilnius (Vilna) 
this summer (from 19 July to 2 August 2009), will be featuring a unique 
self-contained option: the Jewish Lithuania Program (for details please 
see: http://sumlitsem.org/lithuania/jewishlithuania.html).
 
Although including many facets of the rich Litvak heritage, there will 
naturally be emphasis on Yiddish language, literature, and folklore, and 
the literature, culture and history of the Eastern-European Jewish 
diaspora. In addition to the seminars and lectures offered by the 
program's director, Professor Dovid Katz (www.dovidkatz.net 
<http://www.dovidkatz.net/>), of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute, Vilnius 
University -- there will be a rich and variegated program of guest 
presentations, assembled and moderated by Prof. Katz (details at: 
http://sumlitsem.org/lithuania/jlguests.html).
 
The program is conducted in English, but in the event of Yiddish 
speakers and writers enrolling, Prof. Katz will be adding workshops and 
seminars conducted entirely in Yiddish. In all, it will be a genuinely 
exciting, truly one-of-a-kind annual event.
 
The program is open open to all -- writers and non-writers alike.
 
Please don't hesitate to get in touch with me if you have any questions 
about this or any of our programs. SLS would be very glad to hear from you.
 
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
 
Sincerely,

-- 
Mikhail Iossel
Associate Professor of English
Coordinator of Creative Writing
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 Canada
(514) 848-2424x5210

Founder and Director
Summer Literary Seminars
www.sumlitsem.org <http://www.sumlitsem.org>

-- 


 


Steven P. Nathan

Campus Rabbi

Interim LGBTQ Advisor

Hampshire College 
                                                           

Office of Spiritual Life -- Box SA

Amherst, MA 01002

Phone: (413) 559-5282

Fax: (413) 559-5663

snathan at hampshire.edu <mailto:snathan at hampshire.edu>


 

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