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The annual concert honoring Yiddish singer and scholar Adrienne Cooper presents the award for “Dreaming in Yiddish” to Joshua Dolgin, aka Socalled.

How does standardizing Yiddish relate to planning a healthy Jewish future? In this lecture, Dr. Rakhmiel Peltz leads us on a panoramic trip through the struggle for standards in society and Jewish culture.

In this talk, Anna Rozenfeld discusses Yiddish radio programs in postwar Poland, and why they were especially meaningful to survivors and Jews abroad.

Mordkhe Schaechter on the names of trees in Yiddish (YIVO on WEVD, 1967).

Shmuel Lapin discusses Yiddish in contemporary life (1967).

Scholars, librarians, and archivists present on modern Yiddish theater and performance. Participants will assess the newest digital archival resources for research in the field and consider women's experiences.

This meeting of the 16th Street Book Club will discuss Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin, translated from the Yiddish by Shirley Kumove.

Despite the taboo surrounding homosexuality, the topic was too intriguing to be left entirely out of the Yiddish picture. The Yiddish Celluloid Closet program presents Yiddish cinema as you’ve never seen it, plus Isle of Klezbos’ loving and live reinterpretations of movie music from the revelatory soundtracks.

YIVO’s archives have numerous manuscripts, letters, papers and more from many major Yiddish writers.

This talk will look at the history of London’s Yiddish theatres before telling the story of its most successful production: The King of Lampedusa.