Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 7:00pm 4th Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library and over Zoom Faye Greenberg Sigman Woman of Valor Lecture Hybrid Event: In person and also streaming via Zoom, register hereMiriam Karpilove (1888-1956) was a prolific Yiddish writer certain of her own importance, even as she was ignored by critics and largely forgotten …
Hybrid Event: In person and also streaming via Zoom (register via Zoom here.) A lecture by Keith Kahn-Harris, author of Strange Hate: Antisemitism, Racism, and the Limits of Diversity In his 2019 book Strange Hate: Antisemitism, Racism and the Limits of Diversity, Keith Kahn-Harris argued that we are seeing the emergence of a "selective" …
Stutthof: A Nazi Camp Near Danzig Prof. Ruth Schwertfeger November 2, 2022 7 pm, CDT Golda Meir Library Fourth Floor Conference Center Register for the Zoom meeting here. Prof. Ruth Schwertfeger’s book is the first scholarly publication in English to break the silence of Stutthof, a concentration camp largely unknown outside of Poland. In …
In Monkey Boy, Francisco Goldman’s “brilliantly constructed auto-fiction” (NPR), we meet Francisco Goldberg, a middle-aged writer grappling with the challenges of family and love, legacies of violence and war, and growing up as the son of immigrants – a Guatemalan Catholic mother and a Russian Jewish father – in a predominantly white, working-class Boston suburb. …
Indecent at the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, March 10 – 27. Information and tickets here. To download the PDF event flyer, click here. March 7 – May 9: Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center. Perhift Players: Yiddish Theater in Milwaukee. Free exhibit in the JCC Surlow Promenade Gallery. March 15, 6:00 pm CST. Virtual …
Thursday, March 12, 2020, 3:00 pm Digital Humanities Lab, Golda Meir Library UWM Editor-in-chief Jessica Kirzane will discuss how the journal’s born-digital platform and independent funding model open up new arenas for scholarly publishing and collaboration. Her talk will focus especially on the pedagogy section of the journal, which addresses the work many Yiddish Studies …
November 18, 2019 As a Jewish woman of color, filmmaker, and outreach strategist, Lacey Schwartz has long been deeply engaged with issues of racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity in the Jewish community. Her film projects and advocacy work have helped make her a national leader on questions related to Jewish diversity.
Thursday, September 26, 7:00pm Veretski Pass in collaboration with Joel Rubin proudly present The Magid Chronicles, an instrumental collection based on pieces collected by Sofia Magid. The concert combines archival work with new compositions, arrangements and improvisations. Free and open to the public.