Video: Meridian Czernowitz, the poetry and fate of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger

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Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a long-standing sponsor of the Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, which took place on 6–8 September 2024.

This year's program included discussions on the Ukrainian-Jewish literary dialogue, disinformation and Russia's war against Ukraine. Renowned Ukrainian scholar Petro Rykhlo, a finalist for the 2024 Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize, discussed the poetry and fate of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, a young German-language Jewish poet who died at the age of 18 in the Holocaust.

The video of his talk in Ukrainian is below.

Meridian Czernowitz, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, 8 September 2024. Lecture by Petro Rykhlo: "'I want to take the sky in my hands.' The poetry and fate of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger."

 

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