30th Annual Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Symposium (JAHLit)
Sunday, October 27 - Tuesday, October 29, 2024
All sessions and events held at
The Betsy Hotel 1440 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33139

October 29 public event agenda:

Session I - 9:15-10:00am: Book Discussion
Special panel on, “ Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine ,” Mikhail Goldis Translated and edited by Marat Grinberg (Academic Studies Press, Immigrant Worlds and Texts series, 2024)
Victoria Aarons (Chair)
Marat Grinberg, Maxim Shrayer (Discussants)

Session III - 11:45am-12:45pm
Special panel , “David Shrayer-Petrov, Jewish-Russian Writer in America. In Memoriam"
Monica Osborne (Chair and Respondent)

"To Be a Jewish-Russian Poet: David Shrayer-Petrov and Boris Slutsky in Dialogue"
Marat Grinberg

“Mixed Marriage as Theme and Trope in the Works of David Shrayer-Petrov” Maxim D. Shrayer
 

The JAHLIT symposium directors welcome an international body of scholars of Jewish American and Holocaust literature regardless of religious affiliation, denomination, or area of scholarly expertise.

Gather with us at The Betsy each day of the symposium for various educational presentations.