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Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series, Summer 2021
The 2021 lecture series ran on Mondays and Thursdays from June 21 to July 26, covering topics ranging from history and historiography to literature, poetry, folklore, and theater, and featuring some of the field’s leading scholars: Samuel Kassow, Annie Polland, Adina Cimet, Mark Slobin, Gabriella Safran, Avraham Novershtern, Rachel Rojanski, Shaul Stampfer, and Isaac Bleaman.
The Oyneg Shabes Archive and the Ethos of YIVO
Monday, June 21, 2021 | 4:30pm-5:30pm EDT
Samuel Kassow | Delivered in Yiddish | Learn more »
Under the Tenement Rooftops: Immigrant and Migrant Families in New York
Thursday, June 24, 2021 | 4:30pm-5:30pm EDT
Annie Polland | Delivered in English | Learn more »
The Ashkenazi Jews of Mexico
Monday, June 28, 2021 | 4:30pm-5:30pm EDT
Adina Cimet | Delivered in Yiddish | Learn more »
The Yiddish Folksong: A Survey
Thursday, July 1, 2021 | 4:30pm-5:30pm EDT
Mark Slobin | Delivered in English | Learn more »
Monday, July 5, 2021 | NO LECTURE
Yiddish Ethnography and An-ski
Thursday, July 8, 2021 | 4:30pm-5:30pm EDT
Gabriella Safran | Delivered in English| Learn more »
Yiddish Women Writers (Part 1)
Monday, July 12, 2021 | 4:30pm-5:30pm EDT
Avraham Novershtern | Delivered in Yiddish | Learn more »
Yiddish & Zionism
Thursday, July 15, 2021 | 4:30pm-5:30pm EDT
Rachel Rojanski | Delivered in English | Learn more »
Yiddish Women Writers (Part 2)
Monday, July 19, 2021 | 4:30pm-5:30pm EDT
Avraham Novershtern | Delivered in Yiddish | Learn more »
Women Writers in Yiddish Literature
Thursday, July 22, 2021 | 1:30pm-2:30pm EDT
Anita Norich, moderated by Karolina Szymaniak | Delivered in Yiddish | Learn more »
"My Heart is in the East" - How Yiddish Speakers Moved to the East
Thursday, July 22, 2021 | 4:30pm-5:30pm EDT
Shaul Stampfer | Delivered in English | Learn more »
Standardization in Contemporary Yiddish: Case Studies from Hasidic Jews and Yiddishists
Monday, July 26, 2021 | 4:30pm-5:30pm EDT
Isaac Bleaman | Delivered in Yiddish | Learn more »