Presented by Jewish Renaissance in association with World Jewish Relief and the Jewish Book Council.
With the world’s spotlight on Ukraine, we look at the country’s rich Jewish history, culture and literature, past and present. We’ll be joined by guests, including Amelia Glaser, associate professor of Russian and comparative literature at UC San Diego and author of Jews and Ukrainians in Russia's Literary Borderlands; Natan Meir, Chair in Judaic Studies at Portland State University, advisor to the Moscow Jewish Museum and author of Kiev: Jewish Metropolis; Josephine Burton, the artistic director and co-founder of Dash Arts, an international organisation that challenges the way we see the world through artistic experiences; Boris Dralyuk, editor in chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books and a literary translator from Russian and Polish into English, with works including Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories; Sasha Dugdale poet and English literary translator for the International Man Booker short-listed Russian Jewish writer Maria Stepanova; and Alex Brookes, director of development at World Jewish Relief.
Plus music from Dash Arts’ Songs for Babyn Yar – directed by Burton and performed by Yuriy Gurzhy, Svetlana Kundish and Mariana Sadovska – which draws on diverse Ukrainian voices and testimony by survivors of the massacre, as well as Yiddish and Ukrainian folk songs and poetry.
All proceeds raised will go to World Jewish Relief’s Ukraine Crisis Appeal.
Please register below to receive the Zoom link, which will be sent out a few days before the event.* The event takes place at 7.30pm GMT (2.30pm Eastern, 11.30am Pacific).
*Please check your spam folder as sometimes group emails end up there. Contact us if you haven’t received the link by the morning of the event.
Free
JR has an ethical ticketing policy and is offering free tickets to this event, but if you can afford it, please donate to support World Jewish Relief’s Ukraine Crisis Appeal. We are proposing denominations of 18 – the numerical value of the Hebrew word 'chai', meaning 'life'.
