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Ongoing
Series &
Special Events
Calendar of Events—
Fall/Winter 2004/2005
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Videos of some recent YIVO public programs can now be accessed online at http://www.cjh.org/about/media_video.html:
- NEW! The Jewishness of the New York Intellectuals (Symposium, March 31)
- Writing As Roots Series: The Jewish Writer in the 21st Century: "What’s Left to Say?" (Symposium, January 26, 2004)
- Forms of Hope(Lecture by poet Tomas Venclova, November 25, 2003)
- Martyrs for the Empire: Russia's First Jewish Soldiers (Lecture by Olga Litvak, September 9, 2003)
- Old Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism in the West (International Conference, May 11-13, 2003)
Lectures
YIVO conducts an ongoing
lecture series on a wide-ranging set of topics related to East European/American
Jewish history and culture. Lecturers have included renowned scholars and
graduate student recipients of Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies
fellowships.
Most of these programs are free and open to the public. Recent lecturers
and topics have included:
- Professor Olga Litvak, Princetom University: "Martyrs for the Empire: Russia's First Jewish Soldiers."
- Award-winning Israeli novelist Amos Oz, Ben Gurion University of the Negev: "Israel Through Its Literature."
- Acclaimed poet Tomas Venclova, Yale University: "Forms of Hope."
- Renowned Israeli novelist A. B. Yehoshua, Haifa University: "The Zionist Revolution: How Will It Continue?"
- Professor Moshe Rosman, Bar Ilan University: "Di Yidisher Mame's Bobe: Lives of Jewish Women in Poland in he 17th & 18th Centuries." (Rose & Isidore Drench Memorial Lecture)
For information on upcoming lectures, please see the Calendar
of Events.) To receive email announcements of upcoming lectures and
other public programs, please join our mailing list.
Exhibitions, Concerts, & Other Special Events
YIVO's public programs have included exhibitions of art, photography, and historic documents; special theatrical productions; film screenings; readings by Jewish writers such as Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer and Cynthia Ozick; and recitals and concerts.
Recent special events have included:
- A regular film series showcasing rarely seen features and documentaries. Recent series have focused on Hungarian, Czechoslovakian, Polish, Argentinean, and Russian and Soviet Jewry.
- An exhibition entitled "Matityahu Strashun: Scholar, Philanthropist, Book Collector" (December 2001-August 2002), featuring rare books and manuscripts from Vilna's world-famous Strashun Library, rescued by the YIVO Library and Archives after World War II.
(Click here
to view an online version of the exhibition.)
- Concerts presenting the music of Yiddish choral and movie composer Vladimir Heifetz and Broadway theater legend Sheldon Harnick.
- A stage show previewing "The Yiddish Radio Project," a multi-part series broadcast on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" in Spring 2002.
For information
on upcoming public programs, please see the Calendar
of Events.) To receive email announcements of upcoming public programs,
please join our mailing list.
CAPTION FOR IMAGE AT TOP OF PAGE:
Performers and an audience of 800 at a concert of Jewish labor songs sponsored by YIVO at Cooper Union in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Jewish Labor Bund, January 25, 1998.
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