Calendar of Events | Yiddish Book Center

EXHIBIT OPENING | Kaddish for Dąbrowa Białostocka | Sunday, October 22 @ 2 p.m.

Podwal’s series of imaginative, colorful prints incorporate Jewish religious iconography and ritual objects with images from Yiddish folk culture and Jewish history.

EXHIBIT OPENING | The Jewish Ghetto in Postcards | Sunday, October 22 @ 2 p.m.

The Jewish Ghetto in Postcards, from the Blavatnik Archive Foundation, showcases original postcards that depict “the Jewish ghetto” in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Community Open House | Sunday, October 22, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

A day of activities featuring The Sarah Rose Lazarus Family Concert with the Yiddishkeit Klezmer Ensemble, a gallery talk by Mark Podwal, tours, and more. Click to read more.

TALK | Pioneers: The First Breach, with Rose Waldman | Sunday, October 29 @ 2 p.m.

Rose Waldman talks about this newly translated work in which history lends a human voice in S. An- Sky’s humorous novel about a young man seeking to  be a part of the great Jewish enlightenment sweeping across Europe. Click to read more.

TALK | What You Did Not Tell, with Mark Mazower and David Mazower | Sunday, November 5 @ 2 p.m.

Mark Mazower, author and acclaimed historian, explores the struggles of twentieth-century Europe through the lives, hopes, and dreams of his own family. Click to read more.

FILM | Doing Jewish: A Story from Ghana | Sunday, November 19 @ 2 p.m.

This documentary explores the importance of connections, as the Sefwi Jews reach out to others worldwide, and bears witness to their ongoing struggle for acceptance and growth. Click to read more and purchase tickets.

TALK | Have I Got a Story for You: More than a Century of Fiction from the Forward, with Ezra Glinter | Sunday, December 3 @ 2 p.m.

Editor Ezra Glinter combed through the Forward’s archives to glean the best stories from the newspaper’s 120-year history, including wartime novellas, avant-garde fiction, and satirical sketches about immigrant life in NYC. Click to read more.

FILM | Body and Soul: An American Bridge, | Sunday, December 17 @ 2 p.m.

Composed by Johnny Green in 1929, the song was introduced on Broadway by Jewish torch singer Libby Holman; trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong ushered the song into the jazz canon the following year. Click to read more and purchase tickets.

FILM | Bal Ej: The Hidden Jews of Ethopia | Sunday, January 7 @ 2 p.m.

A documentary film by Irene Orleansky that tells the story of secretive Jews in the North Shewa region of Ethiopia who struggle to maintain their faith and culture  in the face of persecution. Click to read more and purchase tickets.

FILM | Chagall-Malevich | Sunday, January 21 @ 2 p.m.

Inspired by the memoirs of Marc Chagall and his contemporaries, this film blends fact and folklore to evoke the return in 1917 of the iconic Jewish artist to his childhood home of Vitebsk. Click to read more and purchase tickets.

FILM | A Home on the Range | Sunday, February 11 @ 2 p.m.

The little-known story of Jews who fled the pogroms and hardships of Eastern Europe and traveled to California to become chicken ranchers. Click to read more and purchase tickets.

FILM | There Are Jews Here | Sunday, February 25 @ 2 p.m.

More than one million American Jews live in once-thriving small towns that have seen better days. This film tells their stories by looking at what Jews are doing to keep their communities alive. Click to read more and to purchase tickets.

FILM | The Jester (Der Purimspiler) | Sunday, March 4 @ 2 p.m.

With its lively circus and vaudeville music and set pieces, The Jester provides a glimpse of 1937 Warsaw’s thriving Yiddish revues and cabarets, which were destroyed soon after.Click to read more and purchase tickets.

The Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival Opening Reception and Film Screening | Thursday, March 15 @ 7 p.m.

The 13th annual Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival kicks off at the Yiddish Book Center with an opening reception followed by a film screening. Click to read more and to purchase tickets.

FILM | Menashe | Sunday, March 25 @ 2 p.m.

Within Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. Performed entirely in Yiddish, this film intimately explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood. Click to read more and to purchase tickets.

Save the Date | Yidstock 2018: July 12-15

The seventh annual Yidstock takes place at the Yiddish Book Center on July 12-15, 2018.