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Tea Arciszewska’s play Miryeml was heralded as a powerful memorial to the million children murdered in the Holocaust. In this talk, Sonia Gollance will discuss her translation of this nearly-forgotten modernist masterpiece as part of a broader effort to uncover Yiddish plays by women.

Sonia Gollance is Associate Professor in Yiddish Studies at University College London. Her book, It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity (Stanford UP, 2021), was a National Jewish Book Awards finalist. She co-edited a special issue of Feminist German Studies on "When Feminism and Antisemitism Collide" and a special issue of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies on "Murder, Lust, and Laughter, or, Shund Theater." Her translation of Tea Arciszewska's play Miryeml was supported by a 2020-21 Translation Fellowship from the Yiddish Book Center. Gollance received her PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017 and is a guest of the Jewish Studies Program for Fall Semester 2024.

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