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[SPR2024] Beginner I Yiddish (Sunday)
This weekly standard class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.
[SPR2024] Beginner IV Yiddish (Sunday)
This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2024] Intermediate II Yiddish (Sunday)
This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2024] Psychics and the Occult in Modern Jewish Culture
Samuel Glauber examines Jewish engagement with modern occultism, with a focus on eastern European Jewry and its diaspora.
[SPR2024] Beginner II Yiddish (Sunday)
This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2024] Intensive Advanced III&IV Yiddish
This twice-weekly intensive class further enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intensive Advanced I&II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2024] Intermediate IV Yiddish (Sunday)
This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2024] Intermediate I Yiddish (Sunday)
This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2024] Intensive Intermediate III&IV Yiddish
This twice-weekly intensive class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intensive Intermediate I&II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2024] Intensive Beginner III&IV Yiddish
This twice-weekly intensive class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intensive Beginner I&II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2024] Intermediate IV Yiddish (Monday)
This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2024] Intermediate III Yiddish
This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
Der oytser formen baym moler: Ryback's Formal Approach to Jewish Art
Noa Tsaushu analyzes the works of Jewish Ukrainian artist Issachar Ber Ryback (1897-1935).
[SPR2024] Intermediate I Yiddish (Monday)
This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2024] Beginner III Yiddish (Monday)
This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2024] Intensive Beginner I&II Yiddish
This twice-weekly intensive class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for students who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.
[SPR2024] Advanced I Yiddish
This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2024] Beginner III Yiddish (Tuesday)
This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2024] Intermediate I Yiddish (Tuesday)
This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2024] Globetrotting Yiddish Writers: Exploring the Work of Perets Hirshbeyn and H.-D. Nomberg
Abraham Lichtenbaum explores the work of Yiddish writers Perets Hirshbeyn and H.-D. Nomberg, who sought to capture their era and a picture of life across the Americas and Israel in their writing.
[SPR2024] Globetrotting Yiddish Writers: Exploring the Work of Perets Hirshbeyn and H.-D. Nomberg
Abraham Lichtenbaum explores the work of Yiddish writers Perets Hirshbeyn and H.-D. Nomberg, who sought to capture their era and a picture of life across the Americas and Israel in their writing.
[SPR2024] Beginner II Yiddish (In-person)
This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2024] Advanced Topics in Yiddish Literature & Grammar: Autobiographical Writing in Yiddish
This twice-weekly intensive class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intensive Advanced V&VI Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2024] Beginner III Yiddish (In-person)
This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2024] The Jewish Lower East Side
Through the prism of New York’s Lower East Side, Elissa Sampson examines the historical interactions seen in Jewish urban immigration, United States industrialization, and processes of social and geographical mobility.
Yiddish and Hebrew Song in the Weimar Republic
Join YIVO for a concert exploring Yiddish and Hebrew songs of the Weimar Republic.
[SPR2024] Advanced Readings in Yiddish Prose
In this class students will read, listen to, and discuss 20th century Yiddish short stories in a variety of forms and styles. It is appropriate for students at the higher intermediate and advanced levels.
Jewish Self-Defense in the Russian Empire 1903-1905
Netta Ehrlich explores the history of Jewish resistance to pogroms in the Russian Empire before and during the failed 1905 revolution.
[SPR2024] Beginner I Reading Yiddish
This weekly reading class covers grammar and how to read Yiddish texts with the help of a dictionary. It is for students new to Yiddish, especially those interested in obtaining reading proficiency for academic or archival research.
[SPR2024] Beginner Conversational Yiddish for Heritage Learners
This weekly conversational class covers grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for students with some basic familiarity with spoken Yiddish.
[SPR2024] Continuing Conversational Yiddish for Heritage Learners
This weekly conversational class is for students who already have some experience speaking in Yiddish, can hold a basic conversation, and want to take their self-expression to the next level.
[SPR2024] Beginner II Yiddish (Wednesday)
This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2024] Continuing Conversational Yiddish for Heritage Learners
This weekly conversational class is for students who already have some experience speaking in Yiddish, can hold a basic conversation, and want to take their self-expression to the next level.
[SPR2024] Beginner I Yiddish (In-person)
This weekly standard class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.
[SPR2024] Beginner I Yiddish (Thursday)
This weekly standard class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.
[SPR2024] Intermediate II Yiddish (Friday)
This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
Jewish Songs and Dances for Piano: Jacob Weinberg’s "Ten Jewish Songs" (1933)
Join YIVO for a performance of Jacob Weinberg’s Ten Jewish Songs (1933), a collection of Jewish folksongs, holiday songs, dances, and Hasidic nigunim, performed by Thomas Kotcheff. Famous for writing the first Hebrew language opera, The Pioneers (Hechalutz), Weinberg was a prolific composer with many songs, choral works, chamber compositions, and oratorios to his name.
The Instant Art of Morris Katz
Join YIVO to celebrate the launch of our newest exhibition, The Instant Art of Morris Katz, with a reception catered by The Challah Fairy and exhibit tours offered by YIVO Senior Academic Advisor & Director of Exhibitions, Eddy Portnoy.
Self-Government between the Shtetl and the Village: Rural Leaders and Jewish-Polish Relations in the Lublin Countryside before World War II
Considering an array of sources, including prewar memoirs, religious and secular self-government records, and court files, Miranda Brethour will describe how rural leadership was an important site of interaction between Jews and Christians in the Lublin countryside leading up to German occupation.
Gebirtig's Notebooks
Join Lorin Sklamberg for his first-ever concert of the ballads of the beloved legendary Yiddish bard of Krakow, Mordkhe Gebirtig, focusing on the lyrics contained in Gebiritg's hand-written notebooks housed in the YIVO Archives.
Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism
Spencer Sunshine discusses a new wave of aspiring neo-Nazi terrorists and the inspiration they draw from James Mason’s Siege, which praises terrorism, serial killers, and Charles Manson.
Celia Dropkin as a Translingual Writer
In this talk, Jakub Zygmunt will present a linguistic biography of Celia Dropkin, discuss selected translingual practices found in Dropkin’s work, and demonstrate what the translingual framework can tell us new about Dropkin’s work in particular and Yiddish literature in general.
Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages
Naomi Seidman, in conversation with Ken Frieden, explores the academic interest in aiming to detect Jewish influences on Sigmund Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought.
2024 Study Tour of Lithuania & Poland
Join YIVO for an enlightening journey to Lithuania and Poland. Examine the life that was lived as you reconnect with your own heritage. Discover the remarkable treasures of old Warsaw, Kraków, Vilnius, and Białowieża.
This You Call a Husband? Runaway Men, Abandoned Jewish Women, and the Creation of the National Desertion Bureau
Co-presented by YIVO and the Jewish Board, join us for the opening of this new exhibition which traces the history of the National Desertion Bureau and includes never before seen records, documents, and photographs from the organization’s voluminous archives.
Homes of the Past
Jeffrey Shandler, in conversation with Deborah Dash Moore, explores the Museum of the Homes of the Past, an abandoned YIVO project that intended to document the European Jewish lives, places, and ways of living that were destroyed during the Holocaust.
2024 Study Tour of Imperial Cities in Central Europe
Come and see Vienna, Prague, and Budapest: cities of Habsburg glory and Jewish memory. This tour will visit beautiful synagogues, unrivaled museums, and landmarks of Jewish religious life and secular genius.
Desires by Celia Dropkin
Join YIVO for a discussion about Anita Norich’s new translation of Celia Dropkin's Desires, with Norich in conversation with Director of Publishing and Public Programs at the Yiddish Book Center, Lisa Newman.
2024 Study Tour of Northern Italy
Join YIVO on a fascinating journey of discovery across northern Italy from Torino, Genova via Firenze, Parma, Modena, Ferrara, Padua to Trieste and Venezia, discovering the fabled Jewish history, unfamiliar to most of us.
Joseph Brodsky: Epitaph for a Centaur, Six Years Later
Join YIVO for a screening of a short film exploring the poet Joseph Brodsky’s Jewish identity, his legacy, and the political undertones of his writing.