Join us for the first Yiddish event of the year!
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2014 | 7pm
י.־ל. פּרץ אין אַ צײַט פֿון רעוואָלוציע
Y. L. Peretz in a Time of Revolution
LECTURE & CONVERSATION
Michael Steinlauf, Gratz College; Edward Portnoy, Rutgers University and YIVO
This program is only in Yiddish.
די לעקציע וועט אָנצייכענען פּרצעס אידעיִשע אַנטוויקלונג בשעת ס’האָט Continue reading YIVO News
FAKE SIGNING AT THE MANDELA MEMORIAL: BECAUSE IT WAS NOT THOUGHT UPON By Harvey Roy Greenberg
In Act I, Scene 4, of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II (1593), the Earls of Mortimer and Lancaster debate whether Edward’s detested low-born lover, Gaveston, should be brought back from exile. The move has been proposed to reconcile the besotted king with his angry peers. Lancaster bitterly opposes it; wily Mortimer counters that upon Gaveston’s return he can be quickly dispatched by an anonymous assassin to the general rejoicing of Continue reading Because it was not thought upon by Harvey Roy Greenberg
Click Here to Read: Justin Bieber: the trouble with the wild child – is it all just a dysfunctional father-son relationship? As the troubled star lands in a Miami court on a drink-driving charge, some are now questioning the influence of his father, Jeremy by Edward Helmore in The Guardian on January 25, 2014.
Justin Bieber with sister Jazmyn, father Jeremy and mother Pattie Mallette at a 2011 film screening in Canada. Photograph: Canadian Press/ Rex
Click Here to Read: Dr Ruth Westheimer: My family values. The sex therapist talks about her family by Nick McGrath in The Guardian on November 9, 2012.
Dr Ruth Westheimer: ‘If I had been sent to Holland, Belgium or France instead of Switzerland, I would be one of the 1.5 million Jewish children who perished.’ Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP
