Mindaugas Kvietkauskas
Lithuania's Minister of Culture, literary scholar, translator, and Yiddishist known for translations of Yiddish literature and work on Lithuanian modernism and urban culture.
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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.
