30 IX 2014, YIVO, NY
Sponsored by UJE
What is the relationship between poetry and nationalism? 
Ukrainian poet
Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861), who was an essential figure for Ukraine’s
national revival, was also praised by Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky
and Yiddish writers Sholem Aleichem and Abraham Reisen. Jabotinsky
maintained that the Ukrainian people could not “deviate from their
national renaissance” due to Shevchenko. On the bicentennial of
Shevchenko’s birth, distinguished literary scholars Gennady Estraikh,
moderator (YIVO; NYU), Peter Fedynsky (Shevchenko translator), Amelia
Glaser (UC San Diego), and Myroslav Shkandrij (University of Manitoba)
gather to discuss Shevchenko’s literary and political legacy, and his
influence on Ukrainian national movements, Jewish intellectuals, and
Ukrainian-Jewish artistic cooperation.
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