SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –UC San Diego Literature Prof. Amelia Glaser, who has specialized in Jewish studies, will lecture on “Babyn Yar in Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry” at 7 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 22, at Temple Emanu-El, 6299 Capri Drive, San Diego. The lecture focuses on the Nazi execution of 33,771 Jews at a ravine Sept. 29-30, 1941, and the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s memorial poem written 20 years later.
Glaser earned a doctorate in comparative literature from Stanford University and has held fellowships at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She joined UC San Diego’s literature department in 2006. Her books include: Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine, and Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands: From the Shtetl Fair to the Petersburg Bookshop.
The professor’s lecture will be held in the sanctuary of Temple Emanu-El, where masks are required. The lecture also may be attended remotely via https://boxcast.tv/channel/vk0vvuch6ppqi4ax133s