Past Events
Sun, May 15Live via ZoomHow do American Jews “know what they think they know” about pre-Holocaust European Jewish life?
Sun, Apr 24Live via ZoomAnnette Bjorling (harp) and Kurt Bjorling (clarinet, basset-horn) cordially invite you to our second covid-times zoom concert of our favorite klezmer tunes.
Sun, Apr 03Live via ZoomTed Merwin will take us from the origin of Jewish delis in Eastern Europe and their growth in New York to Chicago, following Jewish delis from Maxwell Street to Lawndale to the Gold Coast to West Rogers Park to Skokie and the northwest suburbs.
Sun, Mar 27Live via ZoomКраткий обзор участия женщин в литературном процессе на идише.
Sun, Mar 13Live via ZoomCantor, actor, and Yiddish performer Stewart Figa returns to Chicago YIVO to present a program of humorous Yiddish songs, jokes and stories keeping with the fun of the holiday of Purim.
Sun, Feb 20Live via ZoomRabbi Schechter will lift spirits with the most potent mixture known for spirit-lifting: Yiddish and Laughter.
Sun, Jan 23Live via ZoomIn 1832, the duchesse De Berry led a civil war to recapture the French throne for her 11-year-old son. She was betrayed to the government by her trusted confidant, Simon Deutz, the son of France’s chief rabbi, setting off the first outpouring of antisemitism in modern France.
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.- 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 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.
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.
Thu, Oct 21Live via ZoomIn this talk, Rukhl Schaechter will teach proverbs and expressions that demonstrate the unique way that Yiddish-speaking Jews experienced the world.
Sun, Oct 10Live via ZoomProfessor Jeffry Mallow demonstrates the wealth of Yiddish classes, programs, journals, music, films and more, all over the world.
Mon, Aug 16Live Via ZoomSteve Gibons and his group perform music of Jews, Muslims, and Roma peoples from the Middle East, Spain, and Eastern Europe.- Wed, Aug 04Live via ZoomJoin Yiddish-language novelist, poet, and journalist Boris Sandler for a lecture in Russian on his literary works.
Sun, Jul 18Live via ZoomCome hear musician and sound archivist Eléonore Biezunski perform Yiddish songs and klezmer instrumentals from the archival collections of Ruth Rubin, Moshe Beregovski and Zusman Kiselgof.
Sun, Jun 27Live via ZoomJoin German Historian Anette Isaacs, M.A. as she traces back the long road home that led to a rebirth of Jewish life in Germany.
Tue, Jun 22Live via ZoomJoin Josh “Socalled” Dolgin in a solo concert of his unique blend of traditional Yiddish songs and hip hop, presented to you live from his pandemic bedroom hideaway.