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>>> You are cordially invited...
>>>
>>> To the next lecture in the "Cities and the Urban Imaginary" series
>>> of the Seminar on Politics, Literature and the Arts, Harvard
>>> Humanities Center; co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies
>>>
>>>
>>> Street Photographs: the Afterlife of Czernowitz
>>> in Jewish Memory
>>>
>>> by
>>>
>>> Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
>>> Columbia University
>>>
>>>
>>> DATE: MONDAY MARCH 3, 2008
>>> TIME: 6:00 P.M.
>>> PLACE: 133 BARKER CENTER
>>> Seminar director: Susan R. Suleiman
>>>
>>>
>>> Literary scholar Marianne Hirsch, author of Family Frames:
>>> Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory, and historian Leo Spitzer,
>>> author of Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from
>>> Nazism, will present work from their recently finished book on
>>> Czernowitz, a city that was once an eastern capital of the
>>> Habsburg Empire, then a cultural capital in Romania, and is now
>>> Chernivtsi in Ukraine. Associated with some outstanding writers
>>> and poets (Aharon Appelfeld and Paul Celan, among many others),
>>> Czernowitz had a large Jewish population before World War II.
>>> Through a study of street photographs taken on the city's main
>>> avenues in the interwar period, Hirsch and Spitzer will explore
>>> the history of Jews in Czernowitz and what remains of it.
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