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Class starts Feb 28 6:00pm-8:00pm
2017

Political Thinkers of East European Jewry

In the 19th and 20th centuries, the world of East European Jewry was transformed by sweeping changes. Political thought has often been sparked by such change – and this was certainly true on the Jewish street. This course will focus on the ideas of Dubnow, Zhitlowsky, Pinsker, Ahad Ha’am, Syrkin, Borochov, Scherer, and Jabotinsky.

Overview of Archival Collections

Overview of highlights from the collections of the YIVO Archives.

From the Pages of Yedies

10/1/2013

Sixty-three years ago, YIVO honored historian Simon Dubnowwith this special postal mark. The caption explains that a year earlier, YIVO had created a mark to commemorate classic Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem.

From the Pages of Yedies

3/7/2014

by ROBERTA NEWMAN Elsewhere in this March 7, 2014 edition Yedies, historian Joshua Karlip discusses the Diaspora Nationalist movement in Eastern Europe and notes that the father of the movement and its ideology was the scholar Simon Dubnow. There are few more towering figures in the history of East European Jewry than ...

Monday Jan 7 7:00pm
2013

Dubnov, Freud & Husserl: The Creation of Modern Consciousness in Eastern European Jewish Culture

The end of the 19th century saw the birth of secular Jewish nationalism, the discovery of psychoanalysis and the founding of the philosophical movement known as phenomenology.