Yiddish in Chicagoland
CONCERTS * CLASSES * LECTURES * FILMS
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, Dec 12Live via ZoomMichael Alpert and Gica Loening bring together original and traditional songs, tunes and poetry in Yiddish, English and Scots to explore the meeting points of their own East European Jewish, Scottish and American cultural legacies.
Thu, Dec 16Live 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».
Sun, Dec 19Live via ZoomDr. Niborski will speak in Yiddish on the history and current work of the Paris Yiddish Center-Medem Library, giving as an example his study of the Yiddish poet Aaron Tsaytlin. Consecutive interpretation provided.
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