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2022

A Very Jewish Christmas: Jesus and Shabbtai Zvi, from Heretic to Hero
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December 22, 2022
Hanukkah Concert
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December 18, 2022
Ukrainian-Jewish Relations on the Eve and during the Holocaust
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December 14, 2022
Irena Klepfisz: Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021
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December 07, 2022
Gender in The Shtetl: Have Boys Really Never Spoken with Girls?
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December 07, 2022
Break Forth Into Joy - Music in Our Time 2022 - A Choral Festival
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December 01, 2022
Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France
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November 30, 2022
Virtual Tenement Talk – Yiddish in Translation: On the Hunt for Novels by Women with YIVO
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November 10, 2022
Dineh: An Autobiographical Novel
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November 10, 2022
The Golden Peacock: The Voice of the Yiddish Writer
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November 03, 2022
How To Do Research at YIVO: Accessing Digitized Materials
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October 31, 2022
Music of Hugo Kauder
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October 27, 2022
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October 27, 2022
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October 27, 2022
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October 27, 2022
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October 27, 2022
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October 27, 2022
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October 27, 2022
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October 27, 2022
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October 27, 2022
The Origins of National Culture: Self Translation, Originals and Split Authors
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October 25, 2022
Hugo Kauder: Composer, Musical Philosopher, Music Theorist
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October 20, 2022
How To Do Research at YIVO: What is an Archive?
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September 29, 2022
Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age
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September 22, 2022
The Nightmare in Jewish History and Culture
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September 21, 2022
The Dancer and the Holocaust: A Biography of Pola Nireńska
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September 14, 2022
The YIVO Sound Archive at 40: A Celebration
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September 13, 2022
Nusakh Vilne Memorial
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September 11, 2022
Nusakh Vilne Memorial
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September 11, 2022
Serenade: A Balanchine Story
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September 08, 2022
Orthodox, Female, Poet: the Litvish Life of Hadasah Hirshovitz Levin, 1912-1946
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September 01, 2022
Sutzkever's Environmental Poetics
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July 21, 2022
Tea Arciszewska’s 'Miryeml' (1958) and Yiddish Plays by Women
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July 14, 2022
The Theater of Aaron Zeitlin
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July 12, 2022
Women on the Immigrant Yiddish Stage: Paths to Stardom
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July 07, 2022
Fear and Other Stories by Chana Blankshteyn, Translated by Anita Norich
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July 06, 2022
Kyiv and Kharkiv – Two Centers of Yiddish Culture, 1917-1941
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July 05, 2022
Displacement & Creative Resilience in the Modern Jewish Age
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June 30, 2022
Did the YIVO Linguists Disregard Hasidic Yiddish?
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June 28, 2022
"The Master's Tools": Jews and Music in Revolutionary Eastern Europe
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June 23, 2022
Modernist Form / Modern Hegemony: Reading the Politics of Introspectivist Poetics
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June 09, 2022
Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond
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June 07, 2022
Are We In The Midst Of A Yiddish Renaissance?
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June 01, 2022
Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today
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May 26, 2022
Yiddish Theatre in South America (1930-1960): Transnational Networks and Artistic Exchange
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May 24, 2022
The YIVO Folksong Project
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May 23, 2022
Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today
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May 22, 2022
Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today
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May 18, 2022
Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949
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May 11, 2022
Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today
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May 09, 2022
Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis
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May 05, 2022
Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis
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May 05, 2022
“What Does Your Dream Tell You?”: B. Rivkin and Yiddish Occultism in America
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May 02, 2022
Modernism in the Ghetto: Propaganda in the Graphic Design of Documents Produced by the Łódź Judenrat
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April 14, 2022
Free as a Jew: A New Memoir by Ruth Wisse
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April 13, 2022
Hope Is Stronger Than Life: The Vilna Ghetto Diary of Zelig Kalmanovich
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April 07, 2022
Hidden Connections, Unintended Consequences: American Jews, Contraband Trades, and Soviet Borders in the 1920s
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March 31, 2022
Russia's War on Ukraine: Perspectives from Jewish History
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March 16, 2022
How To Do Research at YIVO: A Practical Introduction
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March 14, 2022
An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland
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March 02, 2022
An Evening of Yiddish Theater in Translation: Celebrating Nahma Sandrow's 'Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance'
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February 17, 2022
The Clever Little Tailor
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February 15, 2022
Irene Pletka presents: Awful, Offal Dinner
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February 09, 2022
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February 09, 2022
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February 09, 2022
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February 09, 2022
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February 09, 2022
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February 09, 2022
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February 09, 2022
The Letters Project: A Daughter’s Journey
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February 03, 2022
From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony
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January 27, 2022
Virtual Tenement Talk: New York in Yiddish Song
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January 20, 2022
The Shuttering of Memorial, A Russian Human Rights Group
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January 18, 2022
The Other Side: Law, Education, Ideology & Normalizing the Criminal
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January 12, 2022
How Should We Think About Freedom?
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January 05, 2022