News and Announcements
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The Chicago YIVO Institute is branching out! Check out our new Facebook page and blog.
- Wednesday, June 24 2009 at the Goethe-Institut Chicago - Warren Rosenzweig, Jewish Theater of Austria - "Remembrance for the Future: Memorial and Renewal through Stage Performance." Click here to see the full press release.
- The Chicago YIVO Society's Summer Bulletin is now available. Click here to check it out
- Click here to see the full schedule for the upcoming Chicago YIVO 2009 Summer Festival of Yiddish Culture.
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Click here to download chapter 1 from the "Der Yiddish Lerer" CD-ROM.
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Click here to download vocabulary lesson from chapter 1 from the "Der Yiddish Lerer" CD-ROM.
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Upcoming Events
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Chicago YIVO Leyenkrayz
Monday, June 8, 2009, at 1:30 p.m.
Meeting Room of the Northtown Branch, Chicago Public Library
6435 N. California AvenueWe will continue our reading of Dos Koyler Gesl (Kola Road) by Sholem Asch (starting where we left off, 8 lines from the top of page 3).
The text is attached as a pdf document. Please print out a copy for yourself, and give an extra one to a member who doesn't have e-mail access.
Teddy Aronson has been baking, and will provide the refreshments.
For more details, a postcard version of this invitation is available in .pdf format by clicking here
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Free Film screening of Ha Ashkenazim
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 (6:30 to 8:30PM)
Harold Washington Library Center
400 South State Street;Chicago, IL 60605
Pritzker AuditoriumChicago YIVO invites you to a FREE screening of the Israeli documentary film Ha Ashkenazim.
For more details, a pdf version of this invitation is available by clicking here.
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Professor Jeffry Mallow - "The Pleasures & Pitfalls of Yiddish Translation"
Monday, June 22, 2009 (12:15PM)
Evanston Public Library Center
1703 Orrington at Church; Evanston, IL 60201