{"id":30523,"date":"2024-09-19T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/?p=30523"},"modified":"2024-09-19T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T19:00:30","slug":"video-meridian-czernowitz-the-poetry-and-fate-of-selma-meerbaum-eisinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/video-meridian-czernowitz-the-poetry-and-fate-of-selma-meerbaum-eisinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Meridian Czernowitz, the poetry and fate of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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\u20138 September 2024.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

The video of his talk in Ukrainian is below.<\/p>\n

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.\"<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n