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Yiddish in Chicagoland

CONCERTS * CLASSES * LECTURES * FILMS 
 

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.

Nu, Chicago, WHADDYA 
say?!
UPCOMING EVENTS
21st Century Songs with Josh Waletzky
01:23:52
Exploring the Max and Frieda Weinstein YIVO Sound Archives with Lorin Sklamberg
01:31:46
Levi Strauss, the Gold Rush, and the World’s Most Famous Pair of Pants
01:13:56
Jewish Primitivism, with Samuel Spinner
01:16:55
In the Footsteps of Yitskhok Bashevis and Isaac Bashevis Singer with Jan Schwarz
59:37
From Survivors to DPs: Jews in Post War Germany with Anette Isaacs
01:15:39
The Whole Megillah: The Story of The Yiddish Theatre
01:43:49
Salvage Poetics  The Photographs That Helped Us Reconstruct a Lost World
01:03:39
Image by Alfons Morales

SUPPORT YIDDISH EDUCATION TODAY

all donations to Chicago YIVO Society are tax deductible

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