Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Ha'Shoah) Lecture

"Recovering the Yiddish Voice: Translating Isaiah Spiegel’s Flames from the Earth: A Novel from the Łødź Ghetto"

A talk by Julian Levinson, Samuel Shetzer Professor of American Jewish Studies and Associate Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan.

Professor Levinson will discuss the cultural and aesthetic dimensions of his translation of Flames from the Earth, an autobiographical novel written by Isaiah Spiegel, one of the most revered Yiddish authors to survive the Holocaust. Originally published in Israel in 1966, the novel brings together material that Spiegel wrote while imprisoned in the Łódź Ghetto, which he recovered from a cellar when he returned from Auschwitz after the war. This is the first time that Spiegel's novella has been translated into English.

A short faculty panel discussion will follow the lecture.

Sponsored by The Mead-Swing Lectureship, The Department of Jewish Studies, and the Department of Classics.

Open to all members of the public