
On March 3, Harriet Murav and Sasha Senderovic will present their upcoming book, In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union, translated from Yiddish and Russian .
On March 4, they will each present their monographs. Harriet Murav, As the Dust of the Earth: The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine (Indiana University Press, 2024, winner of the 2024 Heldt Prize for best book introducing new, innovative, and/or underrepresented perspectives into any area of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies)
As the Dust of the Earth: The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine is about poetry and catastrophe, violence and relief work, artistic literature and documentation, injury and care.
Sasha Senderovich, How the Soviet Jew Was Made (Harvard University Press, 2022; finalist for National Jewish Books Award and 2023 American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, AATSEEL, Best First Book Award).
A close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature and film recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: not just a minority but an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity.

Harriet Murav is a Center for Advanced Study Professor and the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Translational Studies in the departments of Slavic Languages & Literatures and Comparative & World Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also the editor of Slavic Review. She is the author of numerous books, including David Bergelson’s Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity (Indiana University Press, 2019) and Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia (Stanford University Press, 2011).

Sasha Senderovich is Assistant Professor in the Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington, where he is also a faculty affiliate at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. He is the author of How the Soviet Jew Was Made (Harvard University Press, 2022).
Co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Melton Center for Jewish Studies at The Ohio State University.