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]

TALK | There and Back Again: Jacob Glatstein’s Voyage Home, with Ezra Glinter | Thursday, June 1 @ 7 p.m. ET

In the 1920s and ’30s, Yiddish poet and Polish native Jacob Glatstein was one of the most creative and energetic forces in New York Yiddish literature. In 1934 he returned to Poland to visit his dying mother.
Author Talk | Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission with Rebecca Margolis | Wednesday, June 14 @ 2:30 p.m. ET

The book tells stories of communities in Canada and abroad that have resisted the decline of Yiddish over a period of seventy years
TALK | Women in Exile: What Yenta Mash Can Tell Us, with Ellen Cassedy | Thursday, June 15 @ 7 p.m. ET

Ellen Cassedy, translator of the collection On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash, talks about the author’s life, her luminous short stories, and the joys and challenges of translation.
TALK | Kibbitz & Nosh—Cafeteria culture in 1970s New York City, with Marcia Bricker Halperin and Deborah Dash Moore | Thursday, June 29, 2023 @ 7 p.m. ET

Photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin documented the bygone self-service cafeterias of the 1970s and ’80s. A unique and vanishing social institution, as well as fertile ground for conversation, cafeterias offered cheap coffee and reasonably priced meals.
Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music July 13–16, 2023 at the Yiddish Book Center

Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music brings the best in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the stage at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Join us for a weekend of concerts, talks, workshops, and more.

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Public Programs Calendar of Virtual and Live Events

TALK | There and Back Again: Jacob Glatstein’s Voyage Home, with Ezra Glinter | Thursday, June 1 @ 7 p.m. ET

Author Talk | Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission with Rebecca Margolis | Wednesday, June 14 @ 2:30 p.m. ET

TALK | Women in Exile: What Yenta Mash Can Tell Us, with Ellen Cassedy | Thursday, June 15 @ 7 p.m. ET

TALK | Kibbitz & Nosh—Cafeteria culture in 1970s New York City, with Marcia Bricker Halperin and Deborah Dash Moore | Thursday, June 29, 2023 @ 7 p.m. ET

Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music July 13–16, 2023 at the Yiddish Book Center