Yiddish in Chicagoland
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With ONLINE EVENTS During Covid!
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Our MISSION
The Chicago YIVO Society is a local affiliate of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The mission of Chicago YIVO is to entertain and educate the local community through subsidized lectures, music programs, and film screenings that reflect the rich heritage and diversity of Jewish culture, and to ensure the future of Yiddish through language education.
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ONLINE PROGRAMmING DURING COVID-19
In-person events are on hold for now, but in the meantime we are offering live lectures, concerts, classes, and Yiddish conversation online.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Sun, Nov 21Live via ZoomJustin Cammy discusses the prose works of poet and partisan Avrom Sutzkever – from his memoirs of the Vilna Ghetto and testimony at the Nuremberg Trials to memoirs of his years in Soviet Russia: a lifetime of prose works collected in his newly published volume of translations.
Sun, Dec 19Live via ZoomВы познакомитесь с авторами, родившимися после Второй мировой войны, с их произведениями, а также с печатными и электронными изданиями, которые теперь выходят на «Еврейской улице».
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