This Sunday at YIVO

Emanuel Ringelblum

SUNDAY 30 JUNE 2013 | 1:00pm
Annual Mordkhe Schaechter Memorial Program
Co-sponsored by the League for Yiddish
MEMORIAL PROGRAM
Admission: Free; RSVP Required: www.yivo.org/reservations

Most of this program will be held in Yiddish.

Dr. Samuel Kassow (Professor of History, Trinity College)
“A Historian in the Ghetto: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg-Shabes Archive”

Emanuel Ringelblum

Between 1940 and 1943 Emanuel Ringelblum organized and directed the Oyneg Shabes Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto. Of the 60 people who worked in the Continue reading This Sunday at YIVO

This Week at YIVO

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TODAY | SUNDAY 23 JUNE 2013 | 11:30am-2:00pm
Translating Early 20th Century Yiddish Plays for 21st Century Audiences

Co-sponsored by the New Worlds Theater Project
TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

This hands-on translation workshop will feature New Worlds Theater Company’s Producing Artistic Director, Ellen Perecman, who will facilitate translation and discussion of short pieces from playwrights such as Hirshbein, Leivick, Ash, and Bimko. Continue reading This Week at YIVO

This Week at YIVO: “Rise Up! Revolution or Class Mobility”

YIVO2THURSDAY 13 JUNE 2013 | 6:30pm
Rise Up! Revolution or Class Mobility: Anglo-Yiddish Poems and Songs as Agents of Political Debate 1884-1914

Presented by Vivi Lachs (University of London)
Moderated by Itzik Gottesman (Associate Editor, Forward – Yiddish Edition)
RUTH GAY SEMINAR IN JEWISH STUDIES

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