Facing the Holocaust through Yiddish Poetry

Facing the Holocaust through Yiddish Poetry

Monday, November 9, 2026
Both during and after the Holocaust, Yiddish poets turned to writing in order to respond to their grief and anger. In this talk, Danny Kraft—a poet, educator, and Yiddish translator—will read and discuss work by some of the Yiddish language's greatest poets to explore how they used art to reckon with the destruction of European Jewish civilization.

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