Registration still open for YIVO Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization — Deadline Extended Through December 31!
Monday, January 5 | 6:30pm | Location: YIVO Institute YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization Keynote Address
For the first time, YIVO’s Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar David Fishman tells the dramatic story of how poets Kaczerginski and Sutzkever rescued YIVO’s treasures from the Vilnius Jewish Museum, smuggled them across international borders, and sent them on to YIVO’s new home in New York.
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Live from the Gallery: The Klezmatics Play Letters to Afar
Monday, January 12 | 7:00pm | Location: MCNY
Musical Performance
Join us in the Letters to Afar gallery at the Museum of the City of New York as the beloved Klezmatics perform an acoustic version of their original score for Péter Forgács’s installation, among other works. Co-presented with MCNY.
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Behind the Lens: New York Jews between the Wars
Wednesday, January 21 | 6:30pm | Location: MCNY
Panel
Think you know Jewish New York? Drawing on the YIVO archives, including found footage of holiday balls, cartoons from the Forverts, immigrants’ autobiographies, and landsmanshaftn records, historians Eddy Portnoy (Rutgers, YIVO), Roberta Newman (YIVO), Daniel Soyer (Fordham), and Rebecca Kobrin (Columbia) present a rarely seen slice of New York Jewish life in the 1920s and 30s. With moderator Annie Polland (Tenement Museum). Co-presented with MCNY.
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This Week in Yedies: News from YIVO
How did European Jews writing in Hebrew treat the specter of the Great War? Check out our interview with Winter Program instructor Beverly Bailis, who teaches a course on Modernism, Gender, and War in Early 20th century Hebrew Literature this January.
Koved zayn ondenk!: Dr. Benjamin Nadel (1918 2014)
Let’s try this again!: Congratulations to Jordan Schnitzer Book Award Winners
Di gantse velt af a firmeblank: The World of Jewish Letterheads