aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] Holocaust commemoration at the University of MarylandOct. 25-27.

["Jurij Dobczansky" <jdob@loc.gov>]

Originally posted to the "Slavlibs" listserv:  FYI

The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies and the
University of Maryland Libraries are pleased to present three days of
events with poet, film maker, and activist Yevgeny Yevtushenko from
October 25 through October 27, 2007

The events, commemorating the Holocaust in Ukraine will take place 
on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. Events will

include an exclusive poetry reading with Yevtushenko, a concert of
music by Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich based on Yevtushenko’s
poetry, and the introduction of the documentary film “Spell Your
Name” directed by Sergey Bukovsky and produced by Steven Spielberg
and Victor Pinchuk.    [More]

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*College Park**, MD -* The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for 
Jewish Studies and the University of Maryland Libraries are pleased to 
present three days of events with poet, film maker, and activist Yevgeny 
Yevtushenko from October 25 through October 27, 2007

The events, commemorating the Holocaust in the Ukraine will take place 
on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. Events will 
include an exclusive poetry reading with Yevtushenko, a concert of music 
by Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich based on Yevtushenko�s poetry, 
and the introduction of the documentary film �Spell Your Name� directed 
by Sergey Bukovsky and produced by Steven Spielberg and Victor Pinchuk.

Yevtushenko will read from his old and new poetry works during the 
poetry reading, with the assistance of two University of Maryland 
theatre majors. A book signing will follow.

The film �Spell Your Name� will be introduced by its director Sergey 
Bukovsky at the Hoff Theatre, just one week after its premier in Kiev. 
The film is a feature-length documentary about the Holocaust in Ukraine. 
It uses Ukrainian and Russian-language testimonies from the USC Shoah 
Foundation Institute�s archive and new footage shot on location in Ukraine.

There will be a conference at which presenters will offer personal 
reflections and new scholarly analyses of the Babi Yar massacre, the 
Holocaust in Ukraine, and the legacy of Yevtushenko�s poem.

A concert will be offered in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center 
presenting Dmitrii Shostakovich�s powerful Symphony No. 13, based on 
Yevtushenko�s poem �Babi Yar.� Tickets will be $7 for students and $25 
for the general public.

On the final day of the events, Yevtushenko�s 1990 film �Stalin�s 
Funeral� will be shown. The film uses the events surrounding Stalin�s 
funeral to illuminate the effects of politics on human life.

For more information please contact Yelena Luckert at 301-405-9365 or 
Marsha Rozenblit at 301-405-4289.

More information on the events can also be found at: 
http://www.jewishstudies.umd.edu <http://www.jewishstudies.umd.edu/> and 
http://lib.umd.edu.

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Yelena Luckert
Librarian for History, Jewish, Slavic and Women's Studies
University of Maryland Libraries
College Park, MD 20742
Phone:  301-405-9365
Fax:    301-314-2795
yluckert@umd.edu

YevtushenkoFlyer.pdf

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YevtushenkoFlyer.pdf