Virtual Public Programs Calendar

GREAT JEWISH BOOKS LECTURE | Magical Thinking: Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Novel The Magician of Lublin, with Anita Norich | Tuesday, April 13 @ 7 p.m. EDT

In this talk, Professor Anita Norich will explore the questions Bashevis Singer poses in the novel about sin, evil, faith, and the choices available to Jews living in the modern world.

TALK | Always Babel: Living a Jewish Life in Translation with Ilan Stavans | Thursday, April 15 @ 7 p.m. EDT

To coincide with the publication of Ilan Stavans' new book, which features his translations of poems originally written in nearly a dozen different languages, he will reflect on the act & art of living a Jewish life in, through, & by means of translation.

RADIO DRAMA | "The Dead Man" By Sholem Asch, Translated by Caraid O’Brien | Sunday, April 25 @ 7 p.m. EDT

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

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

By focusing on presidential elections from the Civil War to the present, we will see that “Jewish politics” has a long and significant history that has shaped both Jews and American politics for over 150 years.

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.

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.

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.

SAVE THE DATE - 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. Details and lineup TBA.

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