Sasha Senderovich

Sasha Senderovich Presents Several Papers at Harvard, Brandeis, and Colombia Universities

Anonymous — Tue, 31 May 2016 19:49:14 +0000

Sasha Senderovich Presents Several Papers at Harvard, Brandeis, and Colombia Universities Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 05/31/2016 - 13:49

Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Russian Studies and Jewish Studies, spent the Spring 2016 on research leave as a Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. During his fellowship, he continued work on his forthcoming book, How the Soviet Jew Was Made: Culture and Mobility After the Revolution.

In April, Prof. Senderovich participated in the international scholarly workshop on "New Directions in Russian Jewish Studies," co-organized by the Brandeis-Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry and the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry at Brandeis University. He also gave a lecture at Harvard University's Center for Jewish Studies on "Scenes of Encounter: The 'Soviet Jew' in Contemporary Russian Jewish American Fiction." He also gave a lecture, "In Search of Merriment: Isaac Babel and Hershele Ostropoler" at the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University.

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Sasha Senderovich Presents Research at the University of Illinois and Harvard

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:45:01 +0000

Sasha Senderovich Presents Research at the University of Illinois and Harvard Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 03/28/2016 - 09:45

Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Russian Studies and Jewish Studies, is spending the current semester on research leave as a Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University.

Prof. Senderovich presented a chapter of his book in progress, Seekers of Happiness: Mobility, Culture, and the Creation of the Soviet Jew at the Jewish Studies Workshop at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on March 7. He also delivered a named Gochman Lecture at Harvard University on March 24 on his new research project on contemporary fiction by Soviet-born émigré Jewish writers in America.

Prof. Senderovich's collaborative translation, with Harriet Murav, of Soviet Yiddish writer David Bergelson's novel Judgment [Mides-hadin] has been offered a contract by Northwestern University Press; the book, which will contain a critical introduction co-written by the translators as well as text notes, is scheduled to appear in 2017 in the Northwestern World Classics series. Prof. Senderovich plans to incorporate this book into the syllabus for his �鶹��Ѱ��Boulder course, "The Russian Jewish Experience."

His article, "Scenes of Encounter: The 'Soviet Jew' in Fiction by Russian Jewish American Writers" has been accepted for publication in Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, where it's expected to be published in 2017. His essay "Ex-Soviets Adopt America" on a new novel by the Russian Jewish American writer Boris Fishman appeared this March in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

On February 25, he conducted a public conversation with the writer Gary Shteyngart at an event organized jointly by the University of Connecticut's Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life and the Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford, CT. He also guest taught a seminar on Gary Shteyngart's memoir Little Failure earlier the same day at UConn-Storrs.

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Sasha Senderovich Presents on Russian Jewish American Writers

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 18:42:52 +0000

Sasha Senderovich Presents on Russian Jewish American Writers Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 12/08/2015 - 11:42

Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Russian Studies and Jewish Studies, presented a paper on how contemporary Soviet-born American Jewish writers respond to the idea of "the Soviet Jew" that emerged in the West during the Cold War, at the annual conference of the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in Philadelpha in November.

He also participated in the annual convention of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) in Boston in December: in a roundtable discussion on Yiddish translation, where he spoke about his recently completed collaborative translation of Soviet Yiddish writer David Bergelson's novel Judgment; and in a roundtable discussion on the pedagogy of including recent TV shows into the Jewish Studies classroom -- including the �鶹��Ѱ��Boulder course "Introduction to Jewish Culture."

Together with David Coons (a �鶹��Ѱ��Boulder undergraduate double-majoring in Jewish Studies and Studio Arts), in October he collaborated on a publication on the pedagogy of teaching Moyshe Kulbak's novel The Zelmenyaners; this book, which appears on the syllabus for his �鶹��Ѱ��Boulder course on the Russian-Jewish Experience and for which he authored the critical introduction and notes, was reviewed in the journal In geveb. He will spend the Spring 2016 semester in residence at Harvard University's Center for Jewish Studies as a Starr Fellow in Judaica.

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Student David Coons and Faculty Sasha Senderovich Produce Collaborative Publication

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 23:18:18 +0000

Student David Coons and Faculty Sasha Senderovich Produce Collaborative Publication Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:18

The Program in Jewish Studies is excited to announce that faculty member Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies, and Jewish Studies and Studio Art double major David Coons recently collaborated on a publication for IN GEVEB, a new, hip online journal of Yiddish studies. The publication, entitled "A Clan on the Move: A Zelmenyaner Family Tree" features an article by Senderovich on the Yiddish novel The Zelmenyaners and a beautiful family tree designed by Coons.

Senderovich, who edited and wrote an introduction for the translated verison of The Zelmenyaners: A Family Saga (2013), teaches the novel in his course Russian Jewish Experience (RUSS/JWST 4401). Heeding student demand for a family tree, Senderovich recruited Coons to use his graphic design skills to produce a clear guide to the Zelmenyaner's complicated web of family relations. In preparation, Coons studied Soviet design art from the 20th century (the era of the novel) and fused this design with his own slick style.

Check out the article and family tree here!

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Sasha Senderovich publishes two articles, tribute to Svetlana Boym

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:23:28 +0000

Sasha Senderovich publishes two articles, tribute to Svetlana Boym Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 08/28/2015 - 10:23

Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Russian and Jewish Studies, published an article “Soviet Jews, Re-Imagined: Émigré Anglophone Writers from the USSR,” in The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). His translation — a collaboration with Harriet Murav (University of Illinois) — of David Bergelson's Yiddish-language novel Harsh Judgment, was published in the inaugural issue of In geveb, a new peer-reviewed Yiddish Studies journal. In August, he taught, for the second consecutive year, in the week-long Great Jewish Books program for high school students, at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass. He was asked by Tablet Magazine to write a tribute for Svetlana Boym, one of his doctoral advisers at Harvard, after her untimely death this summer; the resulting essay became an opportunity to reflect on teaching in Jewish Studies with the guidance of Dr. Boym's work on memory and nostalgia.

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Sasha Senderovich receives prestigious grants to write book "Seekers of Happiness"

Anonymous — Tue, 26 May 2015 01:08:12 +0000

Sasha Senderovich receives prestigious grants to write book "Seekers of Happiness" Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 05/25/2015 - 19:08

Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies, will be on research leave during the academic year 2015-2016, supported by fellowships from �鶹��Ѱ��Boulder's Center for Humanities and the Arts and Harvard University's Center for Jewish Studies. He has also received a grant from the Brandeis-Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry to support the research and writing of his first book, Seekers of Happiness: Mobility, Culture, and the Creation of the Soviet Jew.

Recently, he moderated two public events with the author Gary Shteyngart, at Lehigh University (hosted by the Berman Center for Jewish Studies) and at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia (hosted jointly with Temple University's Feinstein Center for American Jewish History). He was also invited to teach guest classes on Shteyngart's memoir Little Failure at Lafayette College and at the University of Pennsylvania.

The first chapter of his translation--a collaboration with Harriet Murav--of David Bergelson's Yiddish-language novel Strict Justice was published in Pakn Treger.

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Senderovich presents at the University of Oxford

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 20:56:01 +0000

Senderovich presents at the University of Oxford Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/06/2015 - 13:56

Sasha Senderovich presented a paper on Soviet Jewish culture at the international conference on "The Art of Cultural Translation: Performing Jewish Traditions in Modern Times" at the University of Oxford, UK, in January. In February he presented "Hammer and Pickle: Jewish Humor in the Soviet Union" in Boulder's Congregation Bonai Shalom's First Friday series. He plans to attend the annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association in Seattle, WA, in late March, to present a paper on his ongoing research on contemporary literature by Soviet-born American Jewish Writers, as part of the conference seminar on "Literatures of the Postsocialist European Diaspora in the United States."

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Sasha Senderovich presents at "New Wave of Russian-Jewish Cultural Production" Conference

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 22:48:44 +0000

Sasha Senderovich presents at "New Wave of Russian-Jewish Cultural Production" Conference Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 01/06/2015 - 15:48

Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies, presented a paper on writers Gary Shteyngart, Anya Ulinich, and David Bezmozgis at the conference "The New Wave of Russian-Jewish Cultural Production" organized by Columbia University's Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies in New York, in December 2014.

In late January 2015, he will present at the conference "The Art of Cultural Translation: Performing Jewish Traditions in Modern Times" organized by the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford, UK.

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Sasha Senderovich moderates book event with Gary Shteyngart

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 01:19:47 +0000

Sasha Senderovich moderates book event with Gary Shteyngart Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 11/25/2014 - 18:19

Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies moderated an event with the author Gary Shteyngart at Baruch College in New York centered on Shteyngart's memoir, Little Failure. The event was organized by Baruch's Sandra Kahn Wasserman Jewish Studies Center.

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Professor Sasha Senderovich Publishes in The New York Times and Appears on NPR

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 06:00:00 +0000

Professor Sasha Senderovich Publishes in The New York Times and Appears on NPR Anonymous (not verified) Sat, 10/12/2013 - 00:00

Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies, recently published an op-ed in The New York Times entitled "Goodbye, Lenin?" (follow the link to read). The op-ed ran December 9, 2013 and addressed the tearing down of the statue of Vladimir Lenin on Sunday, December 8, 2013 during protests in Kiev against President Viktor Yanukovich.

Professor Senderovich also made an appearance on National Public Radio's The Takeaway on Tuesday, December 10, 2013 addressing the same issue. Follow the link here to hear the podcast.

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