WEDNESDAY 10 JULY 2013 | 7:00pm
Jerusalem on the Prairies: Winnipeg Yiddish Culture and the Power of Place
Faith Jones, Sheva Zucker, Itay Zutra
SEMINAR
Admission: Free
RSVP Required: www.yivo.org/reservations
Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the heart of the Canadian prairies, is known as the coldest city in the world. Jewish pioneers settling there developed a vibrant, independent community, under the unique conditions of long dark winters and vast open landscapes. Winnipeg’s Jews created a fiercely energetic and hyper-literate Yiddish-speaking society that supported a complete cultural universe: from newspapers, bookstores, and libraries, to the largest Yiddish school in North America, the I.L. Peretz Folk School, founded in 1914. Many of these institutions continue today, as Winnipeg furthers its reputation as a Yiddish cultural capital.
Join us at YIVO for a conversation on Yiddish cultural geography that transcends expected borders, and explores the people, ideas, and symbols that helped forge this unique and compelling world.
Featuring Faith Jones, recipient of the Max Weinreich Center’s Tendler Research Fellowship, who will introduce new stories of Winnipeg Yiddish life uncovered in the YIVO archives.
Faith will be joined by two YIVO Yiddish teachers and scholars:
Sheva Zucker, born and raised in Winnipeg, and a graduate of the I.L. Peretz Folk School, and
Itay Zutra, I.L. Peretz Folk School Yiddish Teaching Fellow, and Yiddish and Hebrew instructor at the University of Manitoba.
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
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