Year 2024/2025
October 17: “Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction” Book Launch
October 7, 2024
We are pleased to invite you to the book launch of Prof. Karolina Krasuska’s book “Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction”. In 2010, when The New Yorker published a list of twenty writers under the age of forty who were “key to their generation,” it included five Jewish-identified writers, two of whom—American Gary Shteyngart and Canadian David Bezmozgis—were Soviet-born. This publicity came after nearly a decade of English-language literary output by Soviet-born writers of all genders in North America. Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction traces the impact of these now numerous authors—among others, David Bezmozgis, Boris Fishman, Keith Gessen, Sana Krasikov, Ellen Litman, Gary Shteyngart, Anya Ulinich, and Lara Vapnyar—on major coordinates of the Jewish American imaginary. Discussion will be followed by wine & snacks!