Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity (EN)

26.06.2025 - 12:00 / JCC Krakow, ul. Miodowa 24

In the 1930s, Bruno Schulz chose to write in Polish rather than Yiddish, using the language as a medium for literary exploration of the modern Jewish experience. In his prose, language becomes a method for reflecting on golus—exile—not only as a condition of the individual or of the Jewish people but of matter and meaning themselves.
Based on new archival research, this talk presents Schulz as a diasporic modernist writing at a historical crossroads between empire and nation-state.
Karen Underhill, a literary scholar and translator, is Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago and co-founder of the Polish Jewish Studies Initiative. Her work focuses on Polish and Yiddish modernism, interwar Jewish multilingual culture, and narratives of memory. Her current research centers on Jacob Frank in literature and translation as feminist practice. Co-founder of Massolit Books & Café as well as supporter of JCC Krakow, she is a longtime friend of Kraków.

Space is limited (70 people), registration required: https://34.jewishfestival.pl/en/register/
This is an accompanying event organized by JCC Krakow