Virtual Public Programs Calendar

TALK | Endangered Jewish Languages: Spotlight on Iranian and Bukharian Jews with Sarah Benor and Ruben Shimonov| Thursday, May 6 @ 7 p.m. EDT

Over the past two centuries, several long-standing Jewish languages have become endangered. This talk explains these developments and makes the case for the urgent need for documentation and reclamation.

Family Secrets and the Graphic Novel: Rutu Modan’s The Property and Nora Krug’s Belonging with Tahneer Oksman | Tuesday, May 11 @ 7 p.m. EDT

What might it look like to adequately address the past, including untold, and often unknown, histories? This talk by Tahneer Oksman will address these and other issues as they are explored through the flexible and capacious medium of comics.

2021 MELINDA ROSENBLATT LECTURE | Jews and American Politics: Historical Ideals and Contemporary Realities, by Jonathan Sarna | Sunday, May 16 @ 2 p.m. EDT

Focusing on presidential elections through history, Professor Jonathan Sarna explores the long and significant history of “Jewish politics” & the ways in which they have shaped both Jewish identity & American politics more broadly over the past 150 years.

RADIO DRAMA | "The Dead Man" By Sholem Asch, Translated by Caraid O’Brien | Sunday, May 23 @ 1 p.m. EDT

Sholem Asch’s haunting WWI drama, The Dead Man, presented as a radio drama in its first-ever complete English translation. This program was originally presented by the Yiddish Book Center as part of Carnegie Hall’s Voices of Hope Festival.

TALK | Jews and Jazz: Before the Beginning, with Henry Sapoznik | Thursday, June 3 @ 7 p.m. EDT

By examining the nascent “jazz” offerings of pioneering performances of recording klezmorim we witness how that generation took to jazz as both a social and musical gateway to speed up and encourage their acculturation in transition from old world to new.

TALK | Modicut Yiddish Puppet Theater, 1925–1933 | Thursday, June 17 @ 7 p.m. EDT

This lecture from Eddy Portnoy, featuring photos, illustrations, and a short film, will detail the compelling history of this unusual Yiddish puppet theater.

Jacob Glatstein and Yiddish Rage, with Sunny Yudkoff and Saul Zaritt | Tuesday, June 22, 7-8pm ET

Professors Sunny Yudkoff and Saul Zaritt discuss a range of texts that demonstrate Yiddish poet and critic Jacob Glatstein’s creativity, his theorization of Yiddish as a language of art and folk, and more.

TALK | Cooking in Yiddish: Highlights from the Yiddish Book Center Collection, with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett | Thursday, June 24 @ 7 p.m. EDT

Yiddish cookbooks tell fascinating stories about their authors, publishers, and intended readers. Drawing on gems in the Yiddish Book Center’s collection, this talk will explore what this unique literary genre can reveal about Jewish life.

Yidstock 2021: July 11 @ 4pm EST

Yidstock 2021: The Festival of New Yiddish Music will take place as a virtual 75-minute pre-recorded program featuring some of klezmer's biggest names, as well as YIDSTOCK newcomers.

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