SUNDAY 30 JUNE 2013 | 1:00pm
Annual Mordkhe Schaechter Memorial Program
Co-sponsored by the League for Yiddish
MEMORIAL PROGRAM
Admission: Free; RSVP Required: www.yivo.org/reservations
Most of this program will be held in Yiddish.
Dr. Samuel Kassow (Professor of History, Trinity College)
“A Historian in the Ghetto: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg-Shabes Archive”
Emanuel Ringelblum
Between 1940 and 1943 Emanuel Ringelblum organized and directed the Oyneg Shabes Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto. Of the 60 people who worked in the archive, only 3 survived. The archive reminds us that one can fight not only with guns and rifles but also with ink and paper. Thanks to Ringelblum, future generations were able to write the history of the ghetto on the basis of not German, but rather, Jewish sources.
Gella Schweid Fishman (Yiddish educator, activist and poet)
“About My Neighbor Mordkhe Schaechter”
Musical Program
Anthony Mordechai-Tsvi Russell (Singer, bass)
Accompanied by Alexander Ruvinstein
Refreshments will be served.
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ON VIEW NOW THROUGH JULY 30
Floating Worlds and Future Cities: The Genius of Lazar Khidekel, Suprematism, and the Russian Avant-Garde
EXHIBITION
“Floating Worlds and Future Cities” is the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States of the work of the great artist, architect, designer and theoretician, Lazar Khidekel (1904-1986). Lazar Khidekel worked closely with Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky and Kazimir Malevich in Vitebsk in the years 1918-1922, where he became an important proponent and theoretician of the avant-garde movement known as Suprematism and a founding member of the UNOVIS group (Affirmers of New Art), which included other notable Russian and Jewish artists such as Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitsky, Nina Kogan and Ilya Chashnik. The exhibition focuses on Lazar Khidekel’s role in the transition of Suprematism from painting to architecture, cosmic urbanization, and radical yet environmentally conscious city planning of the future. Read more…
This exhibition begins on the 3rd Floor and continues on the 2nd Floor Mezzanine.
Hours:
Mon and Wed: 9:30am-8:00pm
Tue and Thu: 9:30am-5:00pm
Fri: 9:30am-3:00pm
Sat: CLOSED
Sun: 11:00am-5:00pm
Unless otherwise mentioned events take place at the
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research | 15 West 16th Street
New York | NY | 10011 www.yivo.org