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Join us for a survey of the greatest Yiddish literary works written in the late 19th and early 20th century, open to students of all levels.

by LEAH FALK

Curt Leviant is an esteemed translator, Yiddish scholar, and fiction writer. Among his translations are five volumes of Sholem Aleichem’s work, Chaim Grade’s The Agunah and The Yeshiva, and books by Avraham Reisen, Lamed Shapiro, I.B. Singer, and fabulist Eliezer Shteynbarg. Several of his seven critically acclaimed novels have been translated into major European languages.

For YIVO’s Winter Program, Leviant will teach a course on Yiddish Romantic poet Chaim Grade (1910-1982), “Chaim Grade and the World of Lithuanian Jewry.” In 2013, YIVO acquired Grade’s archive, including 20,000 volumes in multiple languages. (For more information on this acquisition, click here).

by LEAH FALK

Curt Leviant is an esteemed translator, Yiddish scholar, and fiction writer. Among his translations are five volumes of Sholem Aleichem’s work, Chaim Grade’s The Agunah and The Yeshiva, and books by Avraham Reisen, Lamed Shapiro, I.B. Singer, and fabulist Eliezer Shteynbarg. Several of his seven critically acclaimed novels have been translated into major European languages.

For YIVO’s Winter Program, Leviant will teach a course on Yiddish Romantic poet Chaim Grade (1910-1982), “Chaim Grade and the World of Lithuanian Jewry.” In 2013, YIVO acquired Grade’s archive, including 20,000 volumes in multiple languages. (For more information on this acquisition, click here).

YIVO commemorates Sholem Aleichem’s hundredth yortsayt with a new exhibition featuring materials from the newly acquired Sholem Aleichem Family Archive. To kick off this exhibition, YIVO is hosting two Sholem Aleichem tribute events.

In honor of Sholem Aleichem’s hundredth yortsayt, YIVO presents an afternoon of discussion and dramatic performances that will kick off an exhibition of the Sholem Aleichem Family Archive and other related materials from the YIVO Archives.

Course List · January 5 – 23, 2015 The World of Our Mothers: Jewish Women in Eastern Europe Instructor: Elissa Bemporad How and why did Jewish women experience history differently from Jewish men in Eastern Europe? This course will explore the different roles that women came to play in the religious, social, cultural ...

Course List · January 6 – 23, 2014 The Other Sholem Aleichem Instructor: Jonathan Brent Jewish Literary Life in the Soviet Union Instructor: Gennady Estraikh New York Intellectuals Revisited Instructor: Adam Kirsch Froyen un Mame-Loshn: Revolutsye in Yidish Literatur un Lebn Instructor: Agnieszka Legutko Chaim Grade and the World of Lithuanian Jewry Instructor: Curt Leviant Ashkenazi Music and Dance (Lecture/Workshop) Instructor: Dmitri ...

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, ...