Book party for "From a Bird’s Cage to a Thin Branch: The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler" ליטעראַרישער יום־טובֿ
Sunday, January 21, 2024, 2:00 pm Zoom
Join us to celebrate Maia Evrona’s new book of English translations of Yoysef Kerler’s Yiddish poetry: “From a Bird’s Cage to a Thin Branch: The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler”
With readings and discussion by Maia Evrona and Professor Dov-Ber Kerler
Sunday, January 21, 2024, 2 PM EST (New York time)
Free with registration. Click here to register.
Dov-Ber Kerler is the Cohn Chair in Yiddish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has taught Yiddish as well as courses on Yiddish literature, culture and scholarship in Jerusalem, Oxford, Moscow, and Vilnius. A son of Yosef Kerler, Dov-Ber has been publishing his own original Yiddish poetry since 1993, in addition to scholarly and general articles (mostly in Yiddish). To date, since 1996, six collections of his poetry have been published in Britain and Israel, including a joint volume of his and his father’s poems, entitled “Shpigl–ksav” (Words in a Mirror).Maia Evrona is a poet, writer and translator of Yiddish poetry. Her original work has been supported with two joint Fulbright Scholar Awards to Spain and Greece, while her translations of Yosef Kerler and Avrom Sutzkever have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Yiddish Book Center and the American Literary Translators Association. She has also published her own original poetry in her own English to Yiddish translation and has been characterized as a representative of a "new generation of Yiddish poet-translators." www.maiaevrona.com
