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Past Events
Sun, Jan 22ZoomCameron Bernstein will discuss her experience becoming a Yiddish content creator in the 21st century, engaging and communicating with a diverse global audience of Yiddish language learners or enthusiasts, and the current state of Yiddish social media.
Sun, Jan 15ZoomIn this lecture Kirzane, who has translated several of Karpilove's works, will explore Karpilove's pointed criticism of turn-of-the-century Yiddish societal expectations around gender and sexuality that came at considerable expense to women.
Sat, Dec 10House Concert/ZoomAttend in person, or join us on Zoom! Note: Live House Concert will be held in Hyde Park. A Zoom link will be provided in the email confirming your RSVP. If you select to attend in person, location details will be provided in a separate email approximately one week prior to the event.
Tue, Nov 08ZoomJoin us to hear about Reb Noyekh's summer tour across Germany in which he brought Mame-loshn and Jewish culture to millions of Germans.
Sun, Oct 23ZoomBetween the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftist poets reached out to other embattled peoples of the earth—in Yiddish verse. In her book Songs in Dark Times, Prof. Amelia Glaser examines the richly layered meanings of this project, grounded in Jewish collective trauma.
Sun, Sep 11Northbrook LibraryThe Chicago Klezmer Ensemble presents an elegant and knowledgeable approach to klezmer music that retains the earthy, human, and expressive qualities that give traditional klezmer music a direct contact with the listener.- Sun, Aug 21Live via ZoomCameron Bernstein will discuss her experience becoming a Yiddish content creator in the 21st century, engaging and communicating with a diverse global audience of Yiddish language learners or enthusiasts, and the current state of Yiddish social media.
Sun, Jun 26Live via ZoomThe history of the Yiddish theatre, from its birth in Rumania in 1876 through its golden age in New York City in the early 20th century.
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.
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