Creative Projects
Our team project aims to introduce new ways of seeing and remembering the Holocaust. We create visualizations of deportations. My contribution to this project includes analyzing the fate of Italian, Argentine, and Brazilian Jews victims of the Holocaust. Visualizing the smaller number of victims from countries on the periphery opens up windows onto the entirely of the Holocaust.
Creative Writing
Launching of POEMS with SARAH (2020)
"Exile at Home, or At Home in Exile" published in The Athenaeum Review (2019)
"Coming to America" featured in The Curio Project (2016)
Literary Translation
I co-organized the Ackerman Center's first Yom HaShoah Translation Workshop in April 2016 where I invited students, staff, and faculty to translate Paul Celan's "Death Fugue" into more than 15 languages. As editor-in-chief of the literary journal Reunion: The Dallas Review I selected the Arabic, English, French, Polish, and Russian translations, with critical essays by the translators in Volume 6.
In 2020, I facilitated the first Virtual Translation Workshop, focused on Miklós Radinoti's Letter to My Wife, which resulted in 12 superb translations including in Arabic, French, Kurdish (a first for us!), Portuguese, Urdu, and more.
In 2021, I hosted the second Virtual Translation Workshop, focused on Primo Levi's Shema. You can watch the presentation of the translations in Farsi, Filipino, Polish, and others.
During the COVID-19 pandemic isolation, I produced the following videos to highlight the translations created in the previous workshops:
Other iterations of the project that utilized these translations: