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Event Recordings

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2020

Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese Food
Video on YouTube
December 22, 2020
Sound Archive Show and Tell
Video on YouTube
December 09, 2020
Avrom Sutzkever: Ten Poems
Video on YouTube
November 23, 2020
Fermenting and Foraging: Resourcefulness in the Historical and Contemporary Kitchen
Video on YouTube
November 18, 2020
Joel Engel's "Jewish Folksongs" Volumes I & II
Video on YouTube
November 10, 2020
A Brief History of the Paper Brigade
Video on YouTube
October 21, 2020
Yiddish Children’s Literature Today
Video on YouTube
October 07, 2020
A Brief History of YIVO
Video on YouTube
September 30, 2020
May God Avenge Their Blood: A Holocaust Memoir Triptych
Video on YouTube
September 22, 2020
Nusakh Vilne Memorial
Video on YouTube
September 13, 2020
[Live on Zoom] Brider un shvester fun arbet un noyt. A geshikhte fun 'bund.'
Video on YouTube
July 27, 2020
[Live on Zoom] The Accidental Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater
Video on YouTube
July 23, 2020
[Live on Zoom] Confronting Hitler's Professors: Yiddish Scholarship and the Nazis
Video on YouTube
July 21, 2020
[Live on Zoom] Stutchkoff and Yiddish Radio
Video on YouTube
July 20, 2020
[Live on Zoom] Chaim Zhitlovsky and His Philosophy of Yiddishism
Video on YouTube
July 16, 2020
[Live on Zoom] Ab. Cahan's Early Experiments in Yiddish Journalism: di "Sedre" and the Novella "How Rafol Naaritsokh Became a Socialist"
Video on YouTube
July 13, 2020
[Live on Zoom] The Barton Brothers, Mickey Katz, and Others: Yiddish-English Bilingual Parody Songs
Video on YouTube
July 09, 2020
[Live on Zoom] Where Is The Capital of Yiddishland?
Video on YouTube
July 06, 2020
[Live on Zoom] Yiddish Children’s Literature and Jewish Modernity
Video on YouTube
July 02, 2020
[Live on Zoom] Jewish Physicians and Medical Work in Nazi Camps and after Liberation
Video on YouTube
July 01, 2020
Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music
Video on YouTube
June 30, 2020
[Live on Zoom] Eating Right and Left: Food and Political Alignment in the Yiddish Press
Video on YouTube
June 29, 2020
[Live on Zoom] Sephardic Art Song: A Musical Legacy of the Sephardic Diaspora
Video on YouTube
June 23, 2020
Video on YouTube
June 23, 2020
[Live on Zoom] Discovering a Yiddish Treasure Trove
Video on YouTube
June 04, 2020
[Live on Zoom] Dybbuks, Golems, S. An-ski, and Jewish Legends in Times of Fear
Video on YouTube
June 03, 2020
[Live on Zoom] Digging Up Dead Bones: Decadence, the Gothic, and the Grotesque in the Works of H. N. Bialik and I. L. Peretz
Video on YouTube
June 02, 2020
[Live on Zoom] Yiddish in Israel – A History
Video on YouTube
May 27, 2020
[Live on Zoom] The Dairy Restaurant
Video on YouTube
May 27, 2020
[Live on Zoom] Bad Rabbi – Live Podcast Recording
Video on YouTube
May 19, 2020
[Live on Zoom] Sing This at My Funeral – A Memoir of Fathers and Sons
Video on YouTube
May 12, 2020
[Live on Zoom] Where is Our Homeland? Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive
Video on YouTube
April 27, 2020
[Live on Zoom] A Strange New World: Time in David Bergelson’s Literary Work
Video on YouTube
April 23, 2020
Beethoven in the Yiddish Imagination
Video on YouTube
April 20, 2020
Video on YouTube
April 20, 2020
Why the Far Right Kills
Video on YouTube
March 10, 2020
The Odyssey of An Apple Thief
Video on YouTube
March 02, 2020
League for Yiddish Celebration
Video on YouTube
March 01, 2020
Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays by Chava Rosenfarb
Video on YouTube
February 18, 2020
Jewish Brick and Mortar in the Russian Capital
Video on YouTube
February 18, 2020
What is the Cantorial "Golden Age"?
Video on YouTube
February 04, 2020
Ten Years Without Avrom Sutzkever
Video on YouTube
January 28, 2020
Jewish Life in Putin's Russia
Video on YouTube
January 09, 2020