Eva Hückmann is a PhD candidate and lecturer in Russian literature at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Potsdam. Her research focuses on Yiddish, Russian and Polish testimonial literature of forced migration into the Soviet Union during the Second World War.
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Eva Hückmann
University of Potsdam
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Mel Konner’s compelling translation of Helfandn bay Nakht (1950) takes the reader through Sutzkever’s Nesiye iber Afrika, evoking stories of wise African kings, masked hunters, shape-shifting prey, lovers divided by crocodile rivers, and the creation of man beginning with elephant tusks.
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