Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series
YIVO Institute’s 2025 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series begins in June. During two lectures each week, the audience dives into the breadth and depth of Yiddish civilization in Eastern Europe, New York, and around the world. Lectures will be held in English on Tuesdays, and in Yiddish on Thursdays.
Growing out of the YIVO-Bard Uriel Weinreich Yiddish Summer Program, the lectures are part of the Summer Program curriculum, but also open to the public.
Lectures:
Starting on June 24, 2025, until July 22, 2025 | 2-3pm ET | 8-9pm CET | Details
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 | A Turning Point in Remembrance: YIVO in the 1940s | By Jeffrey Shandler | Delivered in English
Thursday, June 26, 2025 | The Poetry of Chaim Grade | By Joshua Price | Delivered in Yiddish
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 | In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Yiddish Memories of Small-Town Jewish Life in Ukraine | By Jeffrey Veidlinger | Delivered in English
Thursday, July 3, 2025 | Kine un kloglid – The Yiddish Art of Lamentation in Early Modern Ashkenaz | By Diana Matut | Delivered in Yiddish
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 | “You had buried me, and I’ve come back!”: Manipulation, Lies, and the Archives of the Cinematic Dybbuk | By Zehavit Stern | Delivered in English
Thursday, July 10, 2025 | Yiddish Warsaw on the Hudson | By Ofer Dynes | Delivered in Yiddish
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 | The Red Jews: Intertextuality in a Yiddish Myth | By Rebekka Voß | Delivered in English
Thursday, July 17, 2025 | The Yiddish of Jerusalem: The Old Yishuv in the Research of Mordecai Kosover | By Yaad Biran | Delivered in Yiddish
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 | The People’s Torah: Crowd-Sourcing Jewish Customs from An-ski to the Internet | By Nathaniel Deutsch | Delivered in English
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