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21st Century Songs with Josh Waletzky
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21st Century Songs with Josh Waletzky

February 12, 2023. Join us for a musical program and conversation with the "poet laureate of new Yiddish songwriting"!
Exploring the Max and Frieda Weinstein YIVO Sound Archives with Lorin Sklamberg
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Exploring the Max and Frieda Weinstein YIVO Sound Archives with Lorin Sklamberg

Join the YIVO Sound Archivist for a virtual tour of the holdings of one of the world’s largest repositories of audio materials pertaining to the Ashkenazic experience.
Levi Strauss, the Gold Rush, and the World’s Most Famous Pair of Pants
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Levi Strauss, the Gold Rush, and the World’s Most Famous Pair of Pants

Join German Historian Anette Isaacs on a captivating journey through the days of the Gold Rush to learn about Levi Strauss, a Bavarian Jew whose ingenious business sense and German ingenuity made the blue jeans world-famous.
Jewish Primitivism, with Samuel Spinner
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Jewish Primitivism, with Samuel Spinner

Lecture from March 12, 2023. What led figures as diverse as Franz Kafka, Y. L. Peretz, and Else Lasker-Schüler to imagine European Jews in terms similar to colonized non-Western peoples?
In the Footsteps of Yitskhok Bashevis and Isaac Bashevis Singer with Jan Schwarz
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In the Footsteps of Yitskhok Bashevis and Isaac Bashevis Singer with Jan Schwarz

Lecture from May 21, 2023. A personal account of Dr. Schwarz's decades long journey in the footsteps of Bashevis, the only Yiddish writer to receive the Nobel Laureate in literature
From Survivors to DPs: Jews in Post War Germany with Anette Isaacs
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From Survivors to DPs: Jews in Post War Germany with Anette Isaacs

Lecture from April 30, 2023. German Historian Anette Isaacs presents fascinating insights into life in Jewish DP camps from 1945 to 1948.
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