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Family Affairs: Ashkenazi and Sephardi Personal Histories

In a series of discussions with leading scholars of modern Jewish history and the Holocaust, our new "Family Affairs" series explores researching and writing about Jewish experience from a distinctively personal perspective. We will also discuss projects in the making, with scholars who are currently working on their books that either trace their family history or take this connection as…

On the Shoulders of Giants: Rabelaisian Authorial Avatars in the Age of Print – Virginia Krause

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City

The point of departure for this talk is the controversial hypothesis that Les Œuvres de Louise Labé was not the work of a woman author, but rather a literary hoax by a group of male poets. Rather than weighing in on this on-going polemic, however, Krause asks to what extent the conditions underlying the Labé hypothesis apply more generally to…