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