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 …
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 …
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 practitioners perform day in and day out.
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.
Wednesday, September 25, 7:00 pm
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Magid Chronicles. This presentation details the project’s development based on the field work of Sofia Magid, the Jewish ethnographer who worked intensively to document Jewish music in Belarus and Ukraine during Stalin’s regime in the 1920s and 30s. Free and open to the public.
Thursday, April 4, 7:00pm
Boswell Book Company
Please join Professor Joel Berkowitz in conversation with Debra Caplan and Alyssa Quint for this celebration of two recent books by members of the Digital Yiddish Theater Project. Free and open to the public.
April 9, 2019
Join us for Historian Victoria Smolkin of Wesleyan University on Soviet Atheism. Smolkin is the author of the book, A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism.
Tuesday, April 30 2019, 7pm
Ladino vocalist Sarah Aroeste and Yiddish vocalist Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell join forces to explore common themes and approaches in Ladino and Yiddish music.