SOVMESTINY STOL: Berlin - Michigan
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Transnational dinner table (sovmestniy stol): a collaboration between the Domik Druzei (stewarding committee) of Kolektiv Goluboy Vagon, meeting in Michigan, and post-Soviet (Jewish) guests of Dascha Klingenberg and Anna Schapiro, at Hopscotch Reading Room in Berlin (a special thank you to siddhartha lokanandi).
Across zakuski of chorniy xleb s ikroi, ogurtzi, shproti and salati, guests from the U.S. and Germany shared art, poetry, song, and conversation in an exchange around (post-)Soviet Jewish experiences in their respective geographic and political contexts.
Menu
Zakuski: Anna Lublina - performance; Rivka Yeker - poetry; Evgenia Gostrer - film
Gorachiye: Conversation - what does it mean to be a post-Soviet Jew in your context? how do your Soviet Jewish history and identity inform your work?
Chai s’ tortom: collective singing - “Goluboy Vagon”
Additional Special Guests
Mascha Rykmann
Natalia Sinelnikova