This Wednesday, Eminent Historian Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, Emeritus, Harvard University, delivers:

IpactWWIThe Impact of World War I and the Russian Revolution on the World of Russian and East European Jewry
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2014 | 7pm
LECTURE

Admission: General – $10 | YIVO members, seniors and students – $7
Box Office: smarttix.com | 212.868.4444

The events that transpired in Eastern Europe between 1914 and 1917 were a direct prelude to the Holocaust. Eminent historian Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, Emeritus, Harvard, examines the impact of World War I and the Russian Revolution on Russian and East European Jewry and the political and social upheaval it caused for the these communities. Read more…

This Week in Yedies: News from YIVO

Yiddish Is the Language They Speak in Their Dreams: Interview with Markus Krah

On Tuesday, February 25, at 7:00pm, YIVO’s Rose and Isidore Drench Memorial Fellow/Dora and Mayer Tendler Fellow Markus Krah will deliver a lecture based on his research: YIVO, Freud, and American Jewry: Discourse on Eastern Europe as a “Talking Cure” for American Jewish Ambivalence. Read more…

Key Word “Shtetl”: Interview with Jeffrey Shandler

In January 2014, Rutgers University Press published Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History by Jeffrey Shandler. It traces the history of writing about the shtetl to demonstrate how the Yiddish word for “town” emerged as a key word in Jewish culture and studies. Read more…

From the Pages of Yedies

by Roberta Newman

Just about 36 years ago, students in YIVO’s Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies formed a discussion group that met in its members’ apartments. Read more…

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