From Sculptures to Words: Exploring Jewish Post-Holocaust Identity Through the Letters of Zenia Marcinkowska Larsson and Chava Rosenfarb
Language: English
Session: This session examines Swedish author Zenia Larsson’s post-Holocaust identity, her 60-year correspondence with Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb, and their art as acts of memory and resistance. It highlights Larsson’s sculptures, autofiction, and her role in shaping Sweden’s cultural memory.
Bio: Dr. Urszula Chowaniec, Associate Professor at Lund University, specialises in Polish and Jewish women’s literature, focusing on identity, history, and feminism. Formerly at UCL SSEES in London (2011–2019), her works include a monograph on Polish contemporary literature, Melancholic Migrating Bodies (2015) and an analysis of a Polish Jewish writer from the 1930s -In Search of a Woman. Early Works of Irena Krzywicka (2007).