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PSOY KOROLENKO
"Virtual Nostalgia, Second Degree: Soviet Popular Hits & Post-Shtetl Songs in Russian, Yiddish, & Moldavian"
Sunday March 7, 8pm • FREE
Robert Gill Theater, U of T, 216 College Street, 3rd Floor
Presented in collaboration with the Centre for Jewish Studies at University of Toronto
PLEASE
NOTE: Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Capacity in the Robert Gill Theatre is 170 people
------------------------- Psoy Korolenko is a Russian/Jewish multilingual poet-singer, known as a 'wandering scholar' and 'singing professor'. His unique one-man show combines folk, klezmer, rap, sound poetry and intellectual cabaret/comedy. As a writer and scholar he is known for his interest in "otherness," diaspora, territory, minorities, and borderlines. The Jewish experience is to him not only a personal story, but also a metaphor of transcultural identity and ultimate otherness. He sings in English, Russian, French, and Yiddish. Watch Psoy Korolenko on YouTube:
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PLUS
Symposium: Ethnography, Culture and Oral History of Yiddish Speakers in Contemporary Eastern Europe
Sunday March 7, 11-5pm • FREE
Robert Gill Theater, U of T, 216 College Street, 3rd Floor
Featured speakers:
• Jeffrey Veidlinger - (Indiana University) In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Jewish Memory in Eastern Europe
• Maria Kaspina - (Russian State University of Humanities) Evil Eye, Dark Forces and How to Fight Them: Yiddish and Russian Stories of Supernatural among Jews in Ukraine
• Mikhail Krutikov - (University of Michigan) Translating Yiddishkayt: "Do You Understand What I Say?"
• Alexandra Hoffman - (University of Michigan) "Very Little Odessa: Yiddish Renaissance in a Ukrainian town in the 1990s"
Respondents:
Professor Jeff Kopstein, University of Toronto
Professor Keith Weiser, York University
Professor Anna Shternshis, University of Toronto
PLEASE
NOTE: Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Capacity in the Robert Gill Theatre is 170 people.
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