Join us for an evocative performance featuring poet Esther Dischereit and Jacobs School dancers and instrumentalists who will improvise to poetry. The poet and performers will tackle issues of anti-Semitism and alienation and will welcome discussion and questions.
“Jews, Memory, and Inclusion”
A Jacobs Community Conversation Guest & Student Performance
Sunday, November 7, 2021
4:00–5:30 PM
Auer Hall & Zoom
Details here, Register here
Esther Dischereit is a world-acclaimed writer of novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and plays for radio and the stage. Based in Berlin, Dischereit is a leading voice among German-Jewish writers and an important commentator on current events in German public media. Flowers for Otello: On the Crimes that Came out of Jena will be brought out in English translation by The University of Chicago Press in Spring 2022. Her prose works include Joëmis Tisch – Eine jüdische Geschichte (1988) (English title: Joëmi’s Table), Übungen jüdisch zu sein (1996) (English title: Lessons in Being Jewish). In 2020 she published Sometimes a Single Leaf, a book of German poetry with English translations by Iain Galbraith, and a collection of essays entitled Mama darf ich das Deutschlandlied singen (Mama, May I Sing the German National Anthem). Her book Have no fear, Tell everything: the Halle Synagogue Terror Attack and the Voice of the Survivors was published in 2021.
Jacobs Student Performers:
Maeve Whelan, viola
Sol Keim, flute/saxophone
Joaquin Ruiz, dancer
Ruth Connelly, dancer
Natalia Garcia, dancer
Moderators:
Judah Cohen
Halina Goldberg
This event is co-hosted by the JSOM Diversity and Equity Committee, the Musicology Department, the Borns Jewish Studies Program, and Germanic Studies Department.
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