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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: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.sumlitsem.org/">www.sumlitsem.org</a>.)<br>
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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: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://sumlitsem.org/lithuania/jewishlithuania.html">http://sumlitsem.org/lithuania/jewishlithuania.html</a>).<br>
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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 (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.dovidkatz.net/">www.dovidkatz.net</a>), 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: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://sumlitsem.org/lithuania/jlguests.html">http://sumlitsem.org/lithuania/jlguests.html</a>).<br>
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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.<br>
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The program is open open to all -- writers and non-writers alike.<br>
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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.<br>
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Thank you for taking the time to read this.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br clear="all">
<br>
-- <br>
Mikhail Iossel<br>
Associate Professor of English<br>
Coordinator of Creative Writing<br>
Concordia University<br>
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West<br>
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 Canada<br>
(514) 848-2424x5210<br>
<br>
Founder and Director<br>
Summer Literary Seminars<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.sumlitsem.org">www.sumlitsem.org</a><br>
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