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Oakton lecture to examine literary representation of Holocaust
A free public lecture by Na'ama Rokem, Ph.D., April 23 at Oakton will examine the literary representation of the Holocaust.
A free public lecture will examine the literary representation of the Holocaust 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, at Oakton Community College’s Skokie campus, 7701 N. Lincoln Ave., in Room P103.
Join Na’ama Rokem, Ph.D., director of the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago for “Biography and Memory: Poetry and Translation after the Holocaust.”
“To write poetry after Auschwitz, philosopher Theodor Adorno famously decried ‘is barbabic,’” Rokem explains. “My talk will analyze the dilemma of literary representation after the Holocaust.”
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Rokem’s presentation will focus on the works of two award-winning poets, Paul Celan (1920-1970) and Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000). Celan was a German-language poet of the post-World War II era who wrote about concentration camp life. Amiachi, who was born in Germany and later became a naturalized Israeli citizen, wrote more than 10 volumes of poetry in Hebrew.
Rokem also is the author of “Prosaic Conditions: Heinrich Heine and the Spaces of Zionist Literature” as well as articles on authors including Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Leah Goldberg and Erich Auerbach.
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“Biography and Memory: Poetry and Translation after the Holocaust” is sponsored by Jewish Studies at Oakton with a generous grant from the Oakton Community College Educational Foundation.
The next Jewish Studies lecture, “Conversations with a Holocaust Survivor: Magda Brown,” is scheduled 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 7, at Oakton’s Skokie campus, in Rooms A145-152.
Contact jewishstudies@oakton.edu for more information.
