RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP TALK: LEAH GOLDBERG’S PSYCHOGEOGRAPHICAL MAPPING OF HEBREW CHILDREN’S CULTURE

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2022, 12:00 PM (PST)

ZOOM

Presented by UCSB’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center

This talk examined the comparative representations of the Mizrahi immigrant and the Holocaust refugee through the motif of the child immigrant to Israel in the mid-20th century through the work of Leah Goldberg (1911-1970). Doctoral candidate in comparative literature Rachel Feldman evaluated Goldberg’s contributions to Hebrew modernism and children’s literature with special focus upon how her fiction collapses the border between the literary landscapes and geographical ones.