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YIVOBirthday

What does YIVO want for its birthday? Your ideas!

We’ll tell you a secret. In 2015, YIVO turns 90. Yes, it’s a big birthday, and we’re proud of our work through the years, including some of the exciting things we’ve been working on in just this last year: The Vilna Project, Letters to Afar, the YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland, and of course our Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, along with two terrific public programming seasons. Continue reading YIVO News and Events

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TarasShevchenko

Taras Shevchenko:
Ukrainian Nationalism, Poetry, and the Jews
Tuesday, September 30 | 7:00pm
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On Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko’s bicentennial, distinguished literary scholars Gennady Estraikh (NYU; YIVO), Peter Fedynsky, Amelia Glaser, and Myroslav Shkandrij discuss Shevchenko’s impact on Jewish intellectuals, Ukrainian-Jewish collaboration, and the relationship between poetry and politics. Read more…
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Please join us in welcoming Professor Gennady Estraikh of New York University as the first Albert B. Ratner Visiting Scholar in East European Jewish Literature. While in residence at YIVO, he will moderate a public panel on Taras Shevchenko, give a lecture on American Jewish Communist novelist Howard Fast, and teach a course on modernist Yiddish literature in translation.

We invite you to meet Professor Estraikh at a special YIVO Member Reception at 5:30 pm on October 7. Keep up with Professor Estraikh’s activities at YIVO on Facebook, and by following us on Twitter @yivoinstitute. Continue reading YIVO News and Events

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Abraham Sutzkever: The Power in Poetry
Wednesday, September 10 | 7:00pm

The Annual Naomi Prawer Kadar Memorial Lecture
Ruth Wisse, Professor Emerita, Harvard University
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Sutskever

The Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever came of age in Vilna in the 1920s and 30s when Yiddish poetry was the favored creative outlet of its Jewish youth. For him, poetry-but only if good enough-was more than self-expression, more than beauty and truth: the power of rhyme was the endurance manifest in nature and in the Jewish people. “That is poetry. / Touch it so lightly that you don’t leave a fingerprint.” In this talk, acclaimed literary scholar Ruth Wisse puts Sutzkever’s poetry to his own test. Professor David Roskies delivers introductory remarks. Sponsored by the Naomi Prawer Kadar Foundation, Inc. Read more… Continue reading YIVO News and Events

This Week in Yedies: News from YIVO
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Song of the Murdered Jewish People:

Looking for the “Real” Yitzkhak Katzenelson

Poet and playwright Yitzkhak Katzenelson (1885-1944) was known chiefly for his work in Hebrew before World War II, especially in Lodz, where he helped found Ha-Bamah ha-‘Ivrit (The Hebrew Stage) Theater Company. But when he was incarcerated in the Warsaw Ghetto, he turned to Yiddish poetry as a way of reaching more readers. Read more…

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POETRY MONDAY: August 4, 2014  
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Chris Waters

We’re especially delighted this month to bring you a poet from outside the borders of the U.S. Chris Waters, of Devon, U.K., is a free-lance poet/tutor/storyteller who has worked extensively across southwest England with young and adult groups and audiences. Although performance is his forte, he is equally good on the  page, as you will see below. His poetry has won several national prizes, including the Bridport, which he won twice. He was also a finalist for the Plough Prize, Devon, and for Poetry Wivenhoe. In 2010 he was Writer-in-Residence at the Appledore Book Festival. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: August 4, 2014  

Poetry Editor Irene Willis’s Poetry Reading
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If any of you are planning to be in the Berkshires this month, our Poetry Editor, Irene Willis, will be reading and signing books, together with another Poetry Monday poet, Karen Chase,  at the Stanmeyer Gallery/Shaker Dam Coffee House, 2 West  Main Street, West Stockbridge. It’s on Thursday, August 14th,  at 7:30 p.m.  The reading is co-sponsored by upstreet (yes, the lower case is deliberate)  magazine and Berkshire Magazine, is free and open to the public, and promises to  be both celebratory and delightful.  Readers of Poetry Monday will get a special discount for Irene Willis’ books, and she will love saying hello to you in person.