Mikhail Krutikov's guest appearances

Mikhail Krutikov

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's Podcast

CREECA Lecture Series Podcast

Justin Cammy

Eddy Portnoy

Jeremy Dauber

Abigail Pogrebin

James Joyce

David Kaufman

Josh Lambert

Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Sholom Aleichem

Brian Taylor

Danny Kaye

Alix Wall

Joan Nathan

Harold Bloom

Gerri Chanel

OwlTail

Der Nister

This week on The Shmooze, Lisa Newman talks to Mikail Krutikov, Professor and Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Professor Krutikov discusses the life and work of enigmatic Yiddish writer Der Nister (“The Recluse”). Professor Kruitkov will be leading the weekend program “Between Fantasy and Reality: The Writings of Der Nister” at the Yiddish Book Center from May 3 to 5. To learn more about the program and register, visit: https://secure2.convio.net/nybc/site/Ticketing?view=Tickets&amp;id=7841Episode 0217April 12, 2019Yiddish Book Center        Amherst, Massachusetts

This week on The Shmooze, Lisa Newman talks to Mikail Krutikov, Professor and Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Professor Krutikov discusses the life and work of enigmatic Yiddish writer Der Nister (“The Recluse”). Professor Kruitkov will be leading the weekend program “Between Fantasy and Reality: The Writings of Der Nister” at the Yiddish Book Center from May 3 to 5. To learn more about the program and register, visit: <a href="https://secure2.convio.net/nybc/site/Ticketing?view=Tickets&amp;id=7841" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://secure2.convio.net/nybc/site/Ticketing?view=Tickets&amp;id=7841</a> Episode 0217 April 12, 2019 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

Episode 0217: "Mikhail Krutikov on the Enigmatic Der Nister”

Since Yuri Lotman and Vladimir Toporov introduced the concept of the “Petersburg Text” in Russian literature, the idea of “reading” urban space through the lenses of a particular literary corpus has become popular among Russian literary scholars. But St. Petersburg also occupied a special place in the imagination of Russian Jews. As the capital of the Russian Empire, the city had the harshest restriction on Jewish residence, and yet it became a major center of multilingual Jewish culture. In my presentation Professor Krutikov attempts to apply the concept of “Petersburg Text” to the multilingual corpus of Jewish writings about St. Petersburg/Leningrad. Professor Krutikov argues that by exploring the intertextual dynamics of the image of St. Petersburg in the prose and poetry in Russian (by Osip Mandelstam and Lev Lunts), Hebrew (Yehuda Leyb Gordon and Haim Lenski), and Yiddish (by Sholem Aleichem and Sholem Asch) we can gain new insights into the more general problem of modern multilingual Jewish literature.

Between the Nile and the Neva: St. Petersburg Multilingual Jewish Text - Mikhail Krutikov (1.31.19)