March 3, 2022 | Noon (PST)
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has everyone confused and seeking more clarity. Marat Grinberg, Associate Professor of Russian and Humanities, Reed College will discuss the situation, offering an up-to-date analysis, and answering your questions.
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Marat Grinberg emigrated from Ukraine in 1993, studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary and Columbia University, and received his PhD from the University of Chicago. A scholar of Jewish and Russian literature and culture, and of cinema, he is the author of “I am to Be Read not from Left to Right, but in Jewish: from Right to Left”: The Poetics of Boris Slutsky (2011); Aleksandr Askoldov: The Commissar (2016); and co-editor of Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen (2013). Marat Grinberg’s most recent essays have appeared in Tablet Magazine, Mosaic, and Los Angeles Review of Books. He lectures widely on topics ranging from Shoah literature and film to Jewish-Russian poetry. Grinberg’s latest book, forthcoming from Brandeis University Press in the fall of this year, is The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines.