Writer, translator, and journalist Benjamin Balint will join us at the Center for an in-person public program, Bruno Schulz and the Hijacking of History. Schulz was a master of twentieth-century imaginative fiction as well as a brilliant graphic artist whose masochistic drawings caught the eye of a sadistic Nazi officer. Sixty years after Schulz was murdered, his last murals were miraculously rediscovered, only to be secretly smuggled by Israeli agents to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Balint will discuss how the ensuing international furor summoned broader perplexities about who has the right to curate orphaned artworks and to construe their meanings. This event is free to attend and will be presented at the Yiddish Book Center and streamed live via Zoom. Book signing following the in-person event. Register below for the Zoom livestream. No advance registration is required to attend in person. See the Event Website to register for the Zoom link.