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Newsletter in Lithuania and Was Discovered in 1991 WEDNESDAY Andy Statman and Zev Feldman: WEDNESDAY CARNEGIE HALL’S MIGRATIONS EDUCATION LOCATED IN FEB 13 APR 10 FESTIVAL COMES TO YIVO: THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY Klezmer Pioneers Reunited! YIVO’s Shine Online 7:00pm 7:00pm Legendary klezmer duo Andy Statman and The Musical Legacy of Eastern 15 West 16th Street CONCERT LECTURE Walter Zev Feldman reunite for the first European Jews Educational Series New York, NY 10011-6301 Co-presented with time in 35 years! The evening will include a Mark Slobin, acclaimed scholar of East Spring Classes yivo.org 212.246.6080 the Center for performance and multimedia presentation European and American Jewish music, Explore Jewish history and Traditional Music celebrating the duo’s work in the 1970s with will discuss Carnegie Hall’s April 15th Register for spring classes at yivo.org/Classes. and Dance (CTMD) culture and access our unique “King of Klezmer” clarinetist Dave Tarras musical program, From Shtetl to Stage. Intermediate Yiddish Instructor: Paula Teitelbaum and other important immigrant musicians. His presentation will feature images and recordings and cover a range of Yiddish 10 SESSIONS | MONDAYS | 6:00PM-8:00PM collection of archival materials theater songs, novelty numbers, concert STARTS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2019 THURSDAY IN DIALOGUE: from the comfort of home. music, and songs of social movements. Newsletter FEB 21 Polish Jewish Relations During Beginner II Yiddish Instructor: Dr. Sheva Zucker 6:00pm the Second World War 10 SESSIONS | WEDNESDAYS | 6:00PM-8:00PM SPRING 2019 IN DIALOGUE SUNDAY STARTS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2019 SERIES EVENT LOCATION » Columbia University In Dialogue: MAY 05 Polish Jewish Relations LECTURE & (Details at yivo.org/Events) 9:00am CONVERSATION Jewish Opera: Literature, Folklore, and Historical PROGRAMS The “In Dialogue” series culminates in a Discovering Ashkenaz: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is dedicated to The third program in the “In Dialogue: CONFERENCE daylong symposium discussing Polish- Themes of Jewish Experience on the Opera Stage JEWISH LIFE IN EASTERN EUROPE Co-presented Polish Jewish Relations” series, Instructor: Dr. Neil W. Levin the preservation and study of the history and culture of Co-presented Jewish relations in the post-war era, and also with Fordham presented by Samuel Kassow and with Fordham touching on contemporary issues, including 5 SESSIONS | WEDNESDAYS | 6:00PM-8:00PM East European Jewry worldwide. For nearly a century, University Piotr Wróbel, focuses on the history STARTS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2019 Folksong, Demons, and the Evil Eye: and Columbia University Poland’s controversial law concerning WWII YIVO has pioneered new forms of Jewish scholarship, of WWII and the Holocaust. and Columbia University and the Holocaust that, according to the FOLKLORE OF ASHKENAZ University research, education, and cultural expression. Our public U.S. State Department, “could undermine A friling zingeray: Yiddish Springtime Singing PRESENTED BY EDWARD BLANK AND FAMILY Circle Instructor: Lorin Sklamberg programs and exhibitions, as well as online and on-site SUNDAY Children’s Day free speech and academic discourse.” 6 SESSIONS | THURSDAYS | 6:00PM-8:00PM Oh Mama, I’m in Love! courses, extend our global outreach and enable us to MAR 17 Enjoy a festive morning celebrating our STARTS THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2019 11:00am MONDAY THE STORY OF THE YIDDISH STAGE share our vast resources. The YIVO Archives contains wonderful and diverse cultural heritage Memory of the Past and the A MORNING at this annual event. This year’s Purim- MAY 06 Battle for a Promising Future PRESENTED BY EDWARD BLANK AND FAMILY more than 23 million original items and YIVO’s Library OF ACTIVITY 7:00pm AND CULTURAL themed Children’s Day will have sing- A talk by founder and president of Yahad- has over 400,000 volumes—the single largest resource IMMERSION LECTURE The 2019 Uriel Weinreich FOR CHILDREN alongs of Yiddish folk staples, a magic in-Unum, Catholic priest Father Patrick Learn more about our course offerings: for such study in the world. OF ALL AGES show, and delicious treats, among other Desbois. Yahad-in-Unum identifies mass Program in Yiddish Language, activities for visitors of all ages. Jewish killing sites and collects forensic yivo.org/Shine Follow us evidence of the executions, and conducts Literature and Culture @YIVOInstitute SUNDAY Sarah Schenirer and Bais international workshops and graduate- Learn more and apply at summerprogram.yivo.org. MAR 24 level seminars to contribute to Holocaust Yaakov: A Revolution in scholarship and the study of genocide. 6:00pm the Name of Tradition BOOK TALK & June 24 – August 2, 2019 This book talk and concert will explore CONCERT SUNDAY Our six-week intensive program,, featuring five levels of lan- the emergence of the Bais Yaakov Secular Sacred Music: Co-sponsored MAY 19 guage study, history and culture seminars, shmues (conversation) SPRING SEASON schools in interwar Poland, when they Morton Feldman, David Lang, LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR by the Center for 7:00pm classes, a theater workshop, tours of the Lower East Side and Contact grew from a one-room school in Sarah Adam Roberts Jewish History CONCERT Hasidic Borough Park, a translation workshop, lectures by visiting tel 212.246.6080 Schenirer’s living quarters to a school A performance of two choral masterworks, scholars, Yiddish theater and music performances, and more. Dear Friends, fax 212.292.1892 system with over 200 schools, 36,000 Morton Feldman’s Rothko’s Chapel and yivo.org JUNE 18 – JUNE 20, 2019 students, and an international reach. David Lang’s Little March Girl Passion, If six weeks isn’t enough, we are now offering Take a moment to open vilnacollections.yivo.org on your General Inquiries featuring the OS Ensemble, led by Raquel [email protected] additional programs to expand your Yiddish learning: smartphone or computer. You will find The Edward Blank WEDNESDAY Avrom Goldfaden and the Rise Acevedo-Klein. The evening also features the Lithuania and Poland YIVO Vilna Online Collections that comprise the YIVO archive Archival Inquiries MAR 27 premiere of a new work by composer Adam [email protected] of the Modern Yiddish Theater Refresher Course June 17 -21, 2019 and library looted by the Nazis during World War II. Some 7:00pm Roberts, commissioned for the occasion. Photo/Film Archives | [email protected] The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater Instructor: Dovid Braun BOOK LAUNCH Study Tour of it came to YIVO in NYC after the War; the rest remained Sound Archives | [email protected] examines the origins of Yiddish theater, TUESDAY Workshop on Teaching Yiddish in Lithuania and was discovered in 1991. With our Lithuanian Library Inquiries from roughly 1876 to 1883, through the A Hebrew Liederabend – Exclusively for YIVO [email protected] works of one of its best-known and most JUNE 04 An Evening of Hebrew Song August 5 – 9, 2019 partners YIVO is digitizing 1.3 million pages of documents and 12,200 books 7:00pm Instructors: Miriam Trinh and Eliezer Niborski that include rabbinical texts, diaries, letters, communal records, literary man- colorful figures, Avrom Goldfaden. Join An elegant illuminating retrospective A once in a lifetime journey of historical and Travel Directions CONCERT uscripts, photographs, Yiddish theater, eye-witness accounts of pogroms and us for a discussion of this rich theatrical program devoted to classic treasures of International and Financial Applicants Apply by: February 28* The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is located in the Center tradition as well as the broader social life on secular Hebrew song and the poetry that has cultural discovery the Holocaust, and much more. General Applicants Apply by: April 2 for Jewish History at 15 West 16th Street between Fifth and which this study sheds light. inspired this rich variety of musical expression Join YIVO for an exclusive Study Tour to Lithuania and Sixth Avenues, New York, NY 10011. for more than a century. The recital will *Financial aid is available for international and domestic students. The Vilna Collections project website unites our treasures in Lithuania with those Poland, led by world-renowned historian and author, Dr. by subway TUESDAY feature three of its leading interpreters: Ilana in NYC for the first time since 1941. In the search bar, type in some individual, And All the Days Were Purple Samuel Kassow. Reconnect with your own heritage and 14 St / Union Sq. L N Q R W 4 5 6 Davidson, Raphael Frieder, and Elizabeth Held annually in January since 2012, the APR 09 and all the days were purple, a new 2019 YIVO- examine the remarkable thousand-year history of our place, book or event you may wish to examine. Though images are daily being 7:00pm Shammash together with world-renowned YIVO-Bard Winter Program invites stu- 14 St + 6 Ave F L M PATH 18 St + 7 Ave 1 album by composer Alex Weiser, Bard Winter people in Eastern Europe. added onto the website, you will shortly find entries with attachments of “dig- ALBUM LAUNCH virtuoso pianist Yehudi Wyner. A pre-concert 14 St + 7 Ave 1 2 3 14 St + 8 Ave A C E L dents to delve into Ashkenazi Jewish life itized files.” Open a file and you will be able to explore the lost world of East CONCERT features songs (which set Yiddish and lecture will be presented at 6:00pm by Program on and culture covering its thousand-year & PARTY English poems to music) that search “The trip was a life-defining experience for me and has European and Russian Jewry in ways never before possible—as will anyone by bus YIVO’s Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor- Ashkenazi history in Eastern Europe and across the allowed me to not only understand where I come from, but for the divine while reflecting on the in-Residence in Music, Neil W.
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