June 2, 2014 | 7pm
Rethinking Jabotinsky
Book Talk
Hillel Halkin, Edward Rothstein, Rebecca Kobrin, Abraham Socher
How do we understand Vladimir Jabotinsky’s legacy? Join biographer Hillel Halkin, NY Times cultural critic Edward Rothstein, historian Rebecca Kobrin and Jewish Review of Books editor Abraham Socher for a fresh look at the Odessa-born journalist, novelist, and Israeli political leader’s life and work.
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June 12, 2014 | 7pm
Jewish-Christian Relations in Poland:
How One Town Overcame Its Past
Podbrodzer Lecture
Magda Teter, Wesleyan University
In the early 18th century, a blood libel case surged in a small Polish town. The ensuing trial ended in the loss of Jewish life and a haunting legacy. But after decades of struggle, the town has found a way to overcome its past. Magda Teter explores the ways history, memory, and art impact Jewish-Christian relations. Read more…
For more background information, read our interview with Magda Teter in this week’s Yedies.
June 17, 2014 | 7pm
Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter-Writing Guides from Europe and America
Book Talk
Roberta Newman, Alice Nakhimovsky, Yelena Shmulenson
When letters were lifelines, the brivnshteler, or letter-writing guide, instructed East European Jews in writing skills, prestige languages such as Russian and Hebrew, and how to navigate unfamiliar social situations. Actors will provide dramatic readings of brivnshteler samples. Read more…
More from Yedies: News from YIVO
YIVO’s 40th Anniversary/25th Anniversary of Relocation to New York (1965)
Today’s episode was original heard on January 17, 1965. On the 40th anniversary of the founding of YIVO and the 25th anniversary of its relocation to New York, host Sheftl Zak talks about the annual YIVO conference which had begun the night before. Read more…
YIVO in the News & Staff Notes – May 2014
The new YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland is now linked to from many other websites and has received coverage in The New York Times, Jewish Heritage Europe, and Arts Journal. Read more…
In This Issue
Rethinking Jabotinsky
Jewish-Christian Relations in Poland
Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl
Yedies: News from YIVO
Summer Cultural Opportunity
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