On Tuesday, October 22, Antony Polonsky, the Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University will appear at YIVO to discuss his monumental three-volume The Jews in Poland and Russia (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization). This book received the 2011 Kulczycki Book Prize for Polish Studies, and the Pro Historia Polonorum Prize for the best book on the history of Poland published in a foreign language between 2007 and 2011. Polonsky is interviewed here by Yedies Editor Roberta Newman.
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Sex, Yiddish and the Law:
Jewish Life in Metz in the 18th Century: Interview with Jay Berkovitz
On Monday, October 21, YIVO and the Center for Jewish History will present Sex, Yiddish and the Law: Jewish Life in Metz in the 18th Century. This event is part of a series of programs exploring the Pinkas (Register) of the Metz Rabbinic Court, two leather-bound volumes preserved in the YIVO Archives.
This program is made possible by the generous support of The David Berg Foundation, The Selz Foundation, and Emil Kleinhaus.
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YIVO Public Program Video Archive
Visit yivo.org/video to view many of YIVO’s public programs from 2005 to the present. Read more…
In 1971, YIVO’s Annual Conference had, as its focus, the past hundred years of Jewish life in the United States. This was no strictly celebratory look at American Jewish history and culture, however. Read more…