{"id":1045,"date":"2010-11-14T19:47:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T00:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/julijasukys.com\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2010-11-16T14:48:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T19:48:05","slug":"litvak-studies-institute-contest-east-european-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julijasukys.com\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"Litvak Studies Institute Contest: East European Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Summer Literary Seminars-Litvak Studies Institute Jewish Lithuania\/Litvak Experiences Program<\/a> <\/strong>announce a new non-fiction contest: East-European Roots: New Writing on the Old World<\/strong>, held this year in affiliation with Tablet Magazine<\/strong><\/a>, the leading online magazine providing a “new take on Jewish life,” and judged by Philip Lopate. The theme for the contest is Eastern European Histories: People’s Roots and Ancestral Heritage. The contest is open to everyone.<\/p>\n

The contest winner will have their work prominently featured online in Tablet Magazine. Additionally, the winner will receive free airfare, tuition, and housing to our 2011 SLS\/LSI Jewish Lithuania\/Litvak Experiences Program. Second-place winners will receive a full tuition waiver for the 2011 SLS\/LSI Jewish Lithuania\/Litvak Experiences Program, and third-place winners will receive a 50% tuition discount.<\/p>\n

A number of select contest participants, based on the overall strength of their work, will be offered tuition scholarships, as well, applicable to the 2011 SLS\/LSI Jewish Lithuania\/Litvak Experiences Program. Read the full guidelines below.
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Litvak Studies Institute (LSI) and Summer Literary Seminars<\/a> <\/strong>announce their joint 2011 Jewish Lithuania program in Vilnius.<\/p>\n

It will take place July 31-August 13. Core faculty includes: Regina Kopilevich, Vytautas Toleikis, Efraim Zuroff, and a number of other distinguished individuals (TBA). The program will be held in parallel with the SLS-Lithuania program, and will share with SLS such eminent writers-in-residence as Ed Hirsch, Robin Hemley, Joseph Kertes, and Rebecca Seiferle.<\/p>\n

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