The war in Bosnia presents itself through the lens of an apartment in Sarajevo in Almir Imsirevic’s play, If This Were A Movie…, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac. The Regulator Bookshop and CSEEES are pleased to host the first stage reading of the … Read more
Ellen Elias-Bursac translates fiction and non-fiction from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian. Her translation of David Albahari's novel Götz and Meyer received the 2006 ALTA National Translation Award. Her book Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Working … Read more
We are pleased to celebrate the publication of A Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War: 20 Works by Ukrainian Playwrights by Laertes Books, an independent press in Chapel Hill, NC. The texts in the anthology were created in … Read more
RESCHEDULED TO THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 The work of Natascha Wodin, born in Germany in 1945 as the daughter of Soviet forced laborers, is clearly autobiographical. Memories of specific moments from childhood and youth, as well as the trauma of exclusion … Read more
The study of Soviet Jewish culture and collective psyche presents a fascinating yet still little known subject of inquiry. Frequently subject to quotas and varying degrees of discrimination, Soviet Jews still participated fully within the larger society. Most were secular, … Read more
