Dear Helene and Irene,
Thank you for sending us a brief eye-witness description of the poetry
festival Meridian in Czernowitz,
Mimi
On 10/5/10 9:39 AM, "Irene Silverblatt" <irene.silverblatt_at_duke.edu> wrote:
>
> We were thrilled to attend the Meridian Poetry Festival last month.
> There was such excitement and beauty in the air. Of course, Paul
> Celan's great poetic gifts were the focus, but his Jewishness and the
> Jewish history of Czernowitz were a significant presence throughout
> the festival. The synagogue was digitally projected onto the Cinema;
> the Kletzmer band played on the Herrengasse; and an extraordinary
> theatrical performance piece, based on Todesfugue, was attended by an
> overflow audience. Can you imagine -- two to three hundred college-
> age students at poetry readings?? Perhaps only in Czernowitz.
>
> Irene and Helene Silverblatt
>
> Irene Silverblatt and Helene Silverblatt
> Professor Professor
> Cultural Anthropology Dept of Psychiatry
> Duke University University of New Mexico
>
>
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