Justin Cammy
Chair and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and World Literatures (Smith College) and senior Yiddish scholar who provided scholarly commentary and analysis of the manuscript's materiality, context, and poetic logic.
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Apr 10, 2026 • 1h 15min
Avrom Sutzkever: Ten Poems
Justin Cammy, a Yiddish scholar and literary historian; Lara Lempert, curator who conserved the Vilna manuscripts; Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, translator and Lithuania’s culture minister. They discuss the 2017 discovery of Sutzkever’s Ten Poems manuscript. Short readings and translations appear. Conversations cover conservation, manuscript materiality, translation challenges, and the project’s collaborative, cross-cultural significance.
