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Winter-Spring 2013 Program Summary


Below is a list of all upcoming lectures, seminars, film screenings, and other events for Spring 2013. For more information about each event including ticket reservation, click on the event title or on the corresponding button in the list at right. For recordings of past events please go to the Program Archives section.

All public programs are wheelchair accessible. A limited number of assistive listening devices are available for deaf and hard of hearing individuals upon request.

THURSDAY 13 JUNE 2013 | 6:30PM
RUTH GAY SEMINAR IN JEWISH STUDIES
Rise Up! Revolution or Class Mobility: Anglo-Yiddish Poems and Songs as Agents of Political Debate 1884-1914
Vivi Lachs, Itzik Gottesman

SUNDAY 16 JUNE 2013 | 2:00PM
BOOK TALK
Sovietization in the Pale: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk, the Jerusalem of Belorussia
Elissa Bemporad

THURSDAY 20 JUNE 2013 | 7:00PM
LECTURE & PERFORMANCE
Old Solomon Levy in Petticoat Lane: Yiddish Popular Songs of London's East End 1880-1940
Vivi Lachs

SUNDAY 23 JUNE 2013 | 2:00PM
BOOK TALK & RECEPTION | Co-sponsored by Indiana University Press and the Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies at Columbia University
Celebration of the New Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary
Solon Beinfeld, Harry Bochner, Sam Norich, Binyumen Schaechter, Temma Schaechter

SUNDAY 30 JUNE 2013 | 1:00PM
MEMORIAL PROGRAM | Co-sponsored by the League for Yiddish
Annual Mordkhe Schaechter Memorial Program
Sam Kassow, Anthony Mordechai-Tsvi Russell