Please join CSEEES and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in welcoming Harriet Murav and Sasha Senerovich to present their forthcoming book In the Shadow of the Holocaust.
In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union, translated from Yiddish and Russian (forthcoming 2026)
Harriet Murav recently retired as a Marjorie Roberts Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences and a Center for Advanced Study Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of six monographs, five co-edited books, and numerous articles on Russian and Yiddish literature and culture from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, Murav has also co-translated David Bergelson’s Judgment (2017) and is co-translating a selection of Yiddish and Russian stories, In the Shadow of the War: Russian Jewish Writers after the Holocaust, under contract with Stanford University Press. Her new project, Living Out of Time focuses on the theme of time, waiting, and wartime in contemporary Ukrainian poetry.
Sasha Senderovich is Associate Professor of Slavic, Jewish, and International Studies at the University of Washington Seattle. He's the author of How the Soviet Jew Was Made (2022) and, together with Harriet Murav, translator of David Bergelson's Yiddish novel Judgment (2017) and In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union (forthcoming, 2026). The latter project has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
