Tuesday, PM2
Ashkenazi poets in Argentina have persistently made use of Ladino and Sephardic motifs to negotiate their new Argentinean identity, notably during the waves of Eastern European immigration at the beginning of the 20th Century and during the military junta at the end of that century. Yael illustrates this kind of sephardism with two main examples: Carlos Grünberg’s poetry of hope for Eastern European Jewish immigrants during the 1910s, and Juan Gelman’s poetry of disillusionment during the 1980s, when in response to the politically motivated “disappearance” of his children, Gelman switched from writing poetry in modern Spanish to composing new cycles of poetry in Ladino. (Translations and originals of their poetry will be provided.)
Faculty: Yael Halevi-Wise
