YIVO Commemorates the Jewish Community of Vilna

(New York, NY) – On Sunday, September 19, 2021 at 1:00pm (ET), the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will commemorate the Jewish community of Vilna – the birth place of YIVO – through poetry and song.

2021’s Nusakh Vilne Memorial will feature a remembrance of Chayele Palevsky, who was a partisan fighting the Nazis in a Jewish unit based in the Narotsh woods near Vilna in Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania). She established Nusakh Vilne alongside her husband Shimke and ran its annual memorial event for many years. The memorial will also feature a conversation on the role of women as resistance fighters with a focus on Vilna and its Jewish and political culture. Chaired by Elye Palevsky, the conversation will be moderated by YIVO's Academic Advisor Eddy Portnoy and will also include Judy Batalion, New York Times bestselling author of The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos, and Rivka Augenfeld.illustrated examples from the two collections.

When:            Sunday, September 19, 2021, 1:00pm (ET)
Where:          Taking Place on Zoom
Reservations Available at:  yivo.org/NusakhVilne2021

This annual event is sponsored by Nusakh Vilne.

For more information contact:
Alex Weiser
Director of Public Programs

YIVO

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