Public Programs Calendar of Virtual and Live Events

We offer both free virtual public programs and some special live public programs on a diverse selection of topics related to Yiddish and modern Jewish culture. Find out about upcoming programs below. To receive updates about these programs, email us at [email protected]

SNEAK PREVIEW | Yiddish: A Global Culture, the Center’s new core exhibit, with Mindl Cohen and David Mazower | Thursday, January 26 @ 7 p.m. EST

Yiddish: A Global Culture, the Center’s new core exhibit, is scheduled to open in Fall 2023.
TALK | Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern, with author Charles Dellheim | Thursday, February 2 @ 7 p.m. EST

Charles Dellheim’s book turns this story on its head by revealing how certain Jewish outsiders came to acquire so many old and modern masterpieces in the first place—and what this reveals about Jews, art, and modernity.
TALK | The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire, with Joseph Sassoon | Thursday, February 16 @ 7 p.m. EST

The influential merchants of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries shaped the globalization of today.
DISCUSSION | The Global Reach of the Yiddish Theater—The Vilna Troupe, God of Vengeance, and Yiddish Performance the World Over, with Caraid O’Brien and Debra Caplan | Thursday, March 2 @ 7 p.m. EST

Professor Debra Caplan and performer Caraid O’Brien discuss where Yiddish theater was performed throughout the world during its heyday in the twentieth century.
CONCERT | “Di Shvester” – The Sisters: Eleanor Reissa and Cilla Owens with the Paul Shapiro Quartet | Sunday, March 5 @ 3:00 PM EST

In celebration of Carnegie Hall’s season long exploration of women in music, we're pleased to partner with the Museum of Jewish Heritage to co-present Di Shvester: The Sisters, a concert with Eleanor Reissa and Cilla Owens. In-person & virtual.
ONLINE COURSE | Shakespeare & Yiddish | Wednesdays, March 8–29, @ 7–8:30 p.m EST

Join literature scholar Ilan Stavans for a four-part course exploring Yiddish theater’s long history of performing and taking inspiration from Shakespeare’s works.
TALK | Have I Got a Story for You with editor Ezra Glinter | Thursday, March 16 @ 7 p.m. EST

Ezra Glinter combed through the archives to find the best stories published during the Forward's 125-year history.
TALK | When Yiddish Was Young in Israel, with Shachar Pinsker | Thursday, March 23 @ 7 p.m. EST

Focusing on “Yung Yisroel” (Young Israel), the name of a group of Yiddish writers in 1950s–1960s Israel, this talk will examine the history of Yiddish as it played out in cultural production.
TALK | Undzer Biblyotek: Montreal’s Jewish Public Library at the Center of Yiddish Culture, with Sebastian Schulman, Rivka Augenfeld, and Sonia Bloom | Thursday, April 20 @ 7 p.m. EST

Founded in 1914, Montreal’s Jewish Public Library (JPL) has long been considered a major center of Yiddish culture, research, and community.
CONVERSATION | Artist and Writer Ray Faust (1900–1993) with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Barry Faust | Thursday, April 27 @ 7 p.m. EST

Join curator Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Barry Faust (grandson of Ray Faust) for a conversation about artist and writer Ray Faust. Presented in conjunction with the opening of an exhibit of Ray Faust’s work at the Yiddish Book Center.
TALK | East European Jews between Renaissance and Futurelessness, with Kenneth Moss | Thursday, May 4 @ 7 p.m. EST

This talk explores how Jewish intellectuals, poets, and ordinary people confronted the sense that their communal and personal futures might be foreclosed by anti-Semitism, illiberal nationalism, and politics in the 1930s.
2023 Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music

Mark your calendars—Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music will take place on July 13–16, 2023. Join us in Amherst, Massachusetts, for a weekend of great music, dancing, and more.

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Public Programs Calendar of Virtual and Live Events

SNEAK PREVIEW | Yiddish: A Global Culture, the Center’s new core exhibit, with Mindl Cohen and David Mazower | Thursday, January 26 @ 7 p.m. EST

TALK | Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern, with author Charles Dellheim | Thursday, February 2 @ 7 p.m. EST

TALK | The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire, with Joseph Sassoon | Thursday, February 16 @ 7 p.m. EST

DISCUSSION | The Global Reach of the Yiddish Theater—The Vilna Troupe, God of Vengeance, and Yiddish Performance the World Over, with Caraid O’Brien and Debra Caplan | Thursday, March 2 @ 7 p.m. EST

CONCERT | “Di Shvester” – The Sisters: Eleanor Reissa and Cilla Owens with the Paul Shapiro Quartet | Sunday, March 5 @ 3:00 PM EST

ONLINE COURSE | Shakespeare & Yiddish | Wednesdays, March 8–29, @ 7–8:30 p.m EST

TALK | Have I Got a Story for You with editor Ezra Glinter | Thursday, March 16 @ 7 p.m. EST

TALK | When Yiddish Was Young in Israel, with Shachar Pinsker | Thursday, March 23 @ 7 p.m. EST

TALK | Undzer Biblyotek: Montreal’s Jewish Public Library at the Center of Yiddish Culture, with Sebastian Schulman, Rivka Augenfeld, and Sonia Bloom | Thursday, April 20 @ 7 p.m. EST

CONVERSATION | Artist and Writer Ray Faust (1900–1993) with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Barry Faust | Thursday, April 27 @ 7 p.m. EST

TALK | East European Jews between Renaissance and Futurelessness, with Kenneth Moss | Thursday, May 4 @ 7 p.m. EST

2023 Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music