[Cz-L] Our talk at Harvard

> 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 6, 2008
> TIME: 6:00 P.M.
> PLACE: 133 BARKER CENTER

> Harvard University

> 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 Cernauti 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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