TUESDAY, APRIL 26TH | 12:45PM 2465 LE CONTE AVENUE | BERKELEY, CA 94709
One of the most terrible aspects of life in the Nazi ghettos, hunger was also also a motif in the extensive and still vastly unexplored corpus of writings from the Nazi ghettos. This talk will focus on two particularly significant literary treatments of hunger in Nazi ghettos, that of Leyb Goldin and Oskar Rosenfeld. We will explore the literary and cultural resources Goldin and Rosenfeld mobilize as they attempt to situate the experience of the ghetto—defined by radical cultural displacement, violence, and cruelly hermetic space-time—in global and political contexts and cosmopolitan frames of reference.