Virtual Public Programs Calendar

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.

TALK | “My Song Ends but My Singing Never Stops: Calls for Justice in the Yiddish Music of the Holocaust in Ukraine,” with Anna Shternshis | Wednesday, July 7, 7 p.m.

Part of YIDSTOCK 2021 | Based on recently discovered archival documents, this lecture examines amateur Yiddish music created during the 1940s in Nazi-occupied Ukraine.

CONVERSATION | Sebastian Schulman in Conversation with Sveta Kundish, Patrick Farrell, and Daniel Kahn| Thursday, July 8, 7 p.m.

Part of YIDSTOCK 2021 | Seb Schulman, executive director of KlezKanada, talks with YIDSTOCK 2021 performers Sveta Kundish, Patrick Farrell, and Daniel Kahn

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.

TALK | The Times They Were a-Changin’: Jewish Protest Singers of the 1960s, with Seth Rogovoy | Thursday, July 15, 7 p.m.

Part of YIDSTOCK 2021 | YIDSTOCK artistic director Seth Rogovoy explores how Jewish artists of the '60s addressed many of the same issues their Yiddish forebears tackled just a few decades earlier.

TALK | Secular Yidishkayt and Social Justice in the US South, with Josh Parshall | Thursday, September 30, 7 p.m.

This talk by historian Josh Parshall will examine how southern members of the Arbeter Ring (and other Jewish-left groups) grappled with issues of justice in the US South.

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