YIVO Announces 2022 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series

(New York, NY) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the 2022 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series. Returning for its fourth year, the lecture series introduces audiences to the breadth and depth of Yiddish civilization in Eastern Europe, New York, and around the world. Lectures will occur Tuesdays and Thursdays from June 23 to July 21. Tuesday lectures will be delivered in Yiddish and Thursday lectures in English.

Lectures will cover topics ranging from history and historiography to literature, poetry, folklore, and theater, delivered by some of the field’s leading scholars: James Loeffler, Leyzer Burko, Barry Trachtenberg, Gennady Estraikh, Nina Warnke, Yitskhok Niborski, Sonia Gollance, Marion Aptroot, and Justin Cammy.

Growing out of YIVO's Uriel Weinreich Yiddish Summer Program, a 6-week immersive Yiddish language program offering classes rom beginner to advanced levels and a wide variety of cultural and enrichment activities, the lecture series are part of the Summer Program curriculum, but are also open to a broad public.

What:             "The Master's Tools": Jews and Music in Revolutionary Eastern Europe
When:            Thursday, June 23, 2022 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
Lecturer:       James Loeffler
Language:     English
Where:           On Zoom
Cost:               Free
Register:        yivo.org/YCLS2022-Loeffler

What:             Did the YIVO Linguists Disregard Hasidic Yiddish?
When:            Tuesday, June 28, 2022 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
Lecturer:       Leyzer Burko
Language:     Yiddish
Where:           On Zoom
Cost:               Free
Register:        yivo.org/YCLS2022-Burko

What:             Displacement & Creative Resilience in the Modern Jewish Age
When:            Thursday, June 30, 2022 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
Lecturer:       Barry Trachtenberg
Language:     English
Where:           On Zoom
Cost:               Free
Register:        yivo.org/YCLS2022-Trachtenberg

What:             Kyiv and Kharkiv – Two Centers of Yiddish Culture, 1917-1941
When:            Tuesday, July 5, 2022 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
Lecturer:       Gennady Estraikh
Language:     Yiddish
Where:           On Zoom
Cost:               Free
Register:        yivo.org/YCLS2022-Estraikh

What:             Women on the Immigrant Yiddish Stage: Paths to Stardom
When:            Thursday, July 7, 2022 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
Lecturer:       Nina Warnke
Language:     English
Where:           On Zoom
Cost:               Free
Register:        yivo.org/YCLS2022-Warnke

What:             The Theater of Aaron Zeitlin (With an Emphasis on the play “Jacob Jacobson”)
When:            Tuesday, July 12, 2022 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
Lecturer:       Yitskhok Niborski
Language:     Yiddish
Where:           On Zoom
Cost:               Free
Register:        yivo.org/YCLS2022-Niborski

What:             Tea Arciszewska’s Miryeml (1958) and Yiddish Plays by Women
When:            Thursday, July 14, 2022 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
Lecturer:       Sonia Gollance
Language:     English
Where:           On Zoom
Cost:               Free
Register:        yivo.org/YCLS2022-Gollance

What:             Libes briv (18th C.): Isaac Wetzlar’s Call for Reform of Jewish Society and Education
When:            Tuesday, July 19, 2022 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
Lecturer:       Marion Aptroot
Language:     Yiddish
Where:           On Zoom
Cost:               Free
Register:        yivo.org/YCLS2022-Aptroot

What:             Sutzkever's Environmental Poetics
When:            Thursday, July 21, 2022 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
Lecturer:       Justin Cammy
Language:     English
Where:           On Zoom
Cost:               Free
Register:        yivo.org/YCLS2022-Cammy

For more information contact:
Alex Weiser
Director of Public Programs

YIVO

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