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French singers Eléonore Biezunski and Eléonore Weill team up as the ‘Lib’Ele Duo’ (The Dragonflies) to present this rare concert blending French and Yiddish music with special musical guest Pete Rushefsky.

For centuries, Poland was home to the world's largest Jewish population—totaling 3.5 million in 1939, before the Holocaust all but extinguished their world. Today the culture has made a small comeback.

COJECO BluePrint Fellowship and YIVO present an evening of art and music dedicated to the Kultur-Lige Yiddish arts movement.

A morning of activity and cultural immersion for children of all ages; join us for sing-alongs, storytelling, and puppetry inspired by the lives of Jewish children before World War II.

Henech Kon is best known today as the composer of the film score for The Dybbuk. He was, however, also a brilliant pianist and musicologist, and wrote arrangements for dozens of Yiddish songs and other scores. This lecture will present Kon’s life and work, and help to bring him the recognition he is due – and his music back on stage.

Course List · January 8 – 24, 2013 Jews in Soviet History Instructor: Gennady Estraikh This course gives a broad overview of Soviet Jewish history, with emphasis on key events from the period 1917-1991. Moving from World War I and the revolutions to the decline of the shtetl and of traditional Jewish life, ...

Join us for an evening celebrating Ashkenazi culinary traditions, with a discussion of Jewish food by best-selling author Michael Wex, and a live cooking demonstration led by Liz Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz of The Gefilteria.

Join us for a Purim-themed Children’s festival! Activities will take place from 11:00am until 1:00pm throughout the Center for Jewish History.

Kids, parents, and grandparents will experience the delightful diversity of Jewish culture from countries around the world in this Purim-themed March Mash-Up of family fun.

A concert in celebration of the rich breadth of music with Yiddish lyrics including Yiddish Theater Songs, Yiddish Folk Songs, and Yiddish Art Songs.