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Fall 2004

All public programs are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted and will be held at:
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011-6301
Seating is limited. Reservations are required even for free events. Please call the Center for Jewish History Box Office at (917) 606-8200 to reserve a place.


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September

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Lecture
9/13 Monday, 7:00 pm

Yiddish Literature in Goles Daytshland

Racolin Memorial Lecture

Tamar Lewinsky, Dept of Jewish History & Culture, University of Munich



October

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Lecture Symposium
10/4 Monday, 7:00 pm

The Unknown Composer of 'Eli Zion': A Musical Detective Story

Heifetz Memorial Lecture

Paula Eisenstein Baker, Dept. of Music, University of St. Thomas, Houston

10/19 Tuesday, 4:00 pm

Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity by Gershon Hundert

Elisheva Carlebach, Allan Nadler, David G. Roskies

November

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Symposium
11/18 Thursday, 4:00 pm

Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish

By Dovid Katz (Basic Books, October 2004)

Dovid Katz, Dov-Ber Kerler, Miriam Hoffman, Arthur Hertzberg, Brad Sabin Hill

Film Lecture
11/22 Monday, 7:00 pm

Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer

11/29 Monday, 7:00 pm

Literarishe bleter, a literary publication in Yiddish (Warsaw, 1924-39)

Vivian Lefsky Hort Memorial Lecture

Sima Beeri, Dept. of Jewish History & Culture, University College, London

December

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Lecture Film
12/2 Thursday, 7:00 pm

The Last Jewish Nobility of Vilna—Father and Son—Rabbis Shmuel & Matisyahu Strashun

Rabbi Professor David Weiss Halivni, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization, Columbia University

12/13 Monday, 7:00 pm

The Cafeteria

Lecture Symposium
12/14 Tuesday, 7:00 pm

The Government of Congress Poland & the Hasidic Movement

Choseed Memorial Lecture

Marcin Wodzinski, Director, Research Centre for Polish Jewry, University of Wroclaw, Poland

12/14 Tuesday, 4:00 pm

The Face of Eastern European Jewry by Arnold Zweig

Jeffrey Shandler, Tom Freudenheim, Liliane Weissberg

January

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Film Lecture
1/10 Monday, 7:00 pm

Enemies: A Love Story

1/10 Monday, 7:00 pm

The Gaon of Vilna

Maria Salit-Gitelson Tell Memorial Lecture

Eliyahu Stern, Dept. of Judaic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Lecture
1/11 Tuesday, 7:30 pm

Rescued from the Reich: How One of Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Yale University Press, 2004

Bryan Mark Rigg