Book Talk(s) - Sven-Erik Rose - Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos

  • by Megan Nicole David

Sven-Erik Rose, Book Talk in the series “Flight or Fight: Stories of Artists under Repression,” hosted by the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized, and Banned Art, New York, February 25, 2026. This lecture focuses on Leyb Goldin’s autobiographical Warsaw Ghetto story “Khronik fun a mes-les” (“Chronicle of 24 hours”).

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDaw3paFcTI

 

Sven-Erik Rose, Book Talk at the University of Virginia, February 12, 2026. This lecture focuses on the only novel that has come down to us from a Nazi ghetto, Zelman Skalov’s Warsaw novel, Di hak on krayts (Axe without a cross, or The swastika).

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TboqadCrE

 

Sven-Erik Rose in Conversation about “Holocaust Literature” with Hannah Pollin-Galay (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and David Mazower, The Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, Massachusetts, February 15, 2026.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xogydkrSNEI

 

A far-ranging conversation between Sven-Erik Rose and John Plotz (Brandeis University) about Rose’s book Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos (Brandeis University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2025), Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, Brandeis University, October 23, 2025.

https://www.brandeis.edu/tauber/events/multimedia.html