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SUMMARY:Book talk "Zionism in Translation. Encounters in the German-Hebrew 
 Archive"
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261105T190000
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ORGANIZER;CN=Universität Hamburg (Institut für Judaistik):MAILTO:no-reply
 @termine-regional.de
LOCATION:Universität Hamburg (Institut für Judaistik)\, Jungiusstraße 11
 \, Hamburg (Hamburg-Mitte)
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DESCRIPTION:\nProf. Na'ama Rokem\n\nIn her new book\, Zionism in Translatio
 n: Encounters in the German-Hebrew Archive\, Na'ama Rokem investigates wri
 tten exchanges by a range of literary twentieth century authors\, includin
 g Hannah Arendt\, Gershom Scholem\, Yehuda Amichai\, Ludwig Strauss\, Eric
 h Auerbach\, Walter Benjamin\, Leah Goldberg\, Peter Szondi\, Paul Celan\,
  and Tuvia Ruebner. This remarkable bilingual archive encompasses not only
  letters but also drafts\, reviews\, and other ephemeral documents. Writte
 n in German and Hebrew\, these documents were sent to and from Jerusalem\,
  primarily in the decades following 1948.\n\nThe writers at the center of 
 Rokem's study contend with the genocidal violence that brought the rich hi
 storical relation between German and Hebrew to a seeming end. They also gr
 apple\, in different ways\, with the new reality in Israel/Palestine in th
 e wake of the founding of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba. T
 he bilingual conversation that crosses over between German and Hebrew in t
 hese letters thus centers around the question of Jewish fate in the twenti
 eth century and is immersed in negotiations about Jewish nationalism\, the
  Zionist movement\, and the possibilities of Jewish poetry. In the space b
 etween German and Hebrew\, Rokem argues\, the protagonists of her study ar
 ticulate forms of ambivalence and doubt that remain absent from their publ
 ished writings.\n\nIn this book presentation\, Rokem will discuss forms of
  belonging and resistance that emerged in relation to the Zionist movement
  throughout the twentieth century\, contributing to a more nuanced underst
 anding of Jewish nationalism and its discontents.\n\nNa'ama Rokem teaches 
 Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago\, where she
  has served as director of the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jew
 ish Studies and as chair of the Department of Comparative Literature. Zion
 ism in Translation: Encounters in the German-Hebrew Archive (University of
  Chicago Press\, 2026) is her second book. Her first book\, Prosaic Condit
 ions: Heinrich Heine and the Spaces of Zionist Literature\, was published 
 by Northwestern University Press in 2013. Currently\, she is working as on
 e of the co-editors of the forthcoming Volume IV.2 of the Critical Edition
  of the Complete Works of Hannah Arendt (Essays and Short Writings on Jewi
 sh Politics) and starting a new research project on Zionism and pedagogy. 
 Registration required\, please register here\n\nInstitut für Judaistik/In
 stitute for Jewish Studies\n\nJungiusstraße 11c\n\n20355 Hamburg
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