Start 2015 right –
at the 4th Annual Winter Program Keynote!
Poets as Smugglers: Sutzkever, Kaczerginski, and How the Remnants of the YIVO Archive Reached New York
Monday, January 5 | 6:30pm | Location: YIVO Institute
YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization Keynote Address
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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And don’t miss our other great events this month celebrating Jewish life in Poland and America:
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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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