30th Annual Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Symposium (JAHLit)

Sunday, October 27 - Tuesday, October 29, 2024

All sessions and events held at

The Betsy Hotel 1440 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33139

October 29 public event agenda:

Session I - 9:15-10:00am: Book Discussion

Special panel on, “ Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine ,” Mikhail Goldis Translated and edited by Marat Grinberg (Academic Studies Press, Immigrant Worlds and Texts series, 2024)

Victoria Aarons (Chair)

Marat Grinberg, Maxim Shrayer (Discussants)

Session III - 11:45am-12:45pm

Special panel , “David Shrayer-Petrov, Jewish-Russian Writer in America. In Memoriam"

-Monica Osborne (Chair and Respondent)

"To Be a Jewish-Russian Poet: David Shrayer-Petrov and Boris Slutsky in Dialogue"

-Marat Grinberg

“Mixed Marriage as Theme and Trope in the Works of David Shrayer-Petrov”

-Maxim D. Shrayer