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In Conversation: From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg

Hosted By: The Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto

On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, join Indigo Books & Music, the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto, and McGill-Queen’s University Press for a distinguished panel discussion of the newly released From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg, a riveting account of life and death in the Holocaust by Abraham Stuzkever, one of the great Yiddish poets of the twentieth century.

  • Anna Shternshis, Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish Studies at the University of Toronto, and author of When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin (Oxford UP)
  • Kalman Weiser, Silber Family Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at York University, and co-editor of Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism (Palgrave Macmillan)
  • Francine Hirsch, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and author of Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal After World War II (Oxford UP)
  • Justin Cammy, Professor of Jewish Studies and World Literatures at Smith College, and translator and editor of Abraham Sutzkever, From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2021)

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