Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series, Summer 2022
The 2022 lecture series ran on Tuesdays and Thursdays from June 23 to July 21, covering topics ranging from history and historiography to literature, poetry, folklore, and theater, and featuring some of the field’s leading scholars: James Loeffler, Leyzer Burko, Barry Trachtenberg, Gennady Estraikh, Nina Warnke, Yitskhok Niborski, Sonia Gollance, Marion Aptroot, and Justin Cammy.
"The Master's Tools": Jews and Music in Revolutionary Eastern Europe
Thursday, June 23, 2022 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
James Loeffler | Delivered in English | Learn more »
Did the YIVO Linguists Disregard Hasidic Yiddish?
Tuesday, June 28, 2022 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
Leyzer Burko | Delivered in Yiddish | Learn more »
Displacement & Creative Resilience in the Modern Jewish Age
Thursday, June 30, 2022 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
Barry Trachtenberg | Delivered in English | Learn more »
Kyiv and Kharkiv – Two Centers of Yiddish Culture, 1917-1941
Tuesday, July 5, 2022 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
Gennady Estraikh | Delivered in Yiddish | Learn more »
Women on the Immigrant Yiddish Stage: Paths to Stardom
Thursday, July 7, 2022 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
Nina Warnke | Delivered in English | Learn more »
The Theater of Aaron Zeitlin
Tuesday, July 12, 2022 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
Yitskhok Niborski | Delivered in Yiddish | Learn more »
Tea Arciszewska’s Miryeml (1958) and Yiddish Plays by Women
Thursday, July 14, 2022 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
Sonia Gollance | Delivered in English | Learn more »
Libes briv (18th C.): Isaac Wetzlar’s Call for Reform of Jewish Society and Education
POSTPONED | Tuesday, July 19, 2022 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
Marion Aptroot | Delivered in Yiddish | Learn more »
Sutzkever's Environmental Poetics
Thursday, July 21, 2022 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
Justin Cammy | Delivered in English | Learn more »