
Lara Lempert
Head of the Judaica Research Center at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania and curator of its Judaica collection who coordinated the discovery, conservation, and publication of recovered Jewish manuscripts.
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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.


