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Chicago YIVO Society
Приєднався 11 лип 2021
I Want You Should, with Avi F. October
What are the building blocks of all our curses and blessings? What makes an insult particularly Jewish? Come enjoy a relaxed discussion about Yiddish expressions and idioms. We will explore popular phrases and what they mean underneath, and more obscure sayings.
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Yiddish Science Fiction
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Award-winning essayist, translator, and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans takes us through a journey of futuristic Yiddish. For some American Jews today, Yiddish is a machine of nostalgia. Yet di mamelosh was once forward-looking, producing some of the most adventurous literature not only in the Jewish world but in the world at large, including science fiction. Award-winning essayist, translato...
Yes, you can say it in Yiddish! The making of a new English-Yiddish dictionary
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Prior to the publication of the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary (Indiana University Press, 2016, first edition), the most recent English-Yiddish dictionary was Weinreich's Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary, published in 1968. Although that pioneering work was reprinted numerous times, it was never updated. Why did it take nearly 50 years to publish a different English-Y...
Levi Strauss, the Gold Rush, and the World’s Most Famous Pair of Pants
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Join German Historian Anette Isaacs on a captivating journey through the days of the Gold Rush to learn about Levi Strauss, a Bavarian Jew whose ingenious business sense and German ingenuity made the blue jeans world-famous.
Exploring the Max and Frieda Weinstein YIVO Sound Archives with Lorin Sklamberg
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Join the YIVO Sound Archivist for a virtual tour of the holdings of one of the world’s largest repositories of audio materials pertaining to the Ashkenazic experience.
21st Century Songs with Josh Waletzky
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February 12, 2023. Join us for a musical program and conversation with the "poet laureate of new Yiddish songwriting"!
From Survivors to DPs: Jews in Post War Germany with Anette Isaacs
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Lecture from April 30, 2023. German Historian Anette Isaacs presents fascinating insights into life in Jewish DP camps from 1945 to 1948.
In the Footsteps of Yitskhok Bashevis and Isaac Bashevis Singer with Jan Schwarz
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Lecture from May 21, 2023. A personal account of Dr. Schwarz's decades long journey in the footsteps of Bashevis, the only Yiddish writer to receive the Nobel Laureate in literature
Jewish Primitivism, with Samuel Spinner
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Lecture from March 12, 2023. What led figures as diverse as Franz Kafka, Y. L. Peretz, and Else Lasker-Schüler to imagine European Jews in terms similar to colonized non-Western peoples?
Salvage Poetics The Photographs That Helped Us Reconstruct a Lost World
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Lecture Presented May 15, 2022 How do American Jews “know what they think they know” about pre-Holocaust European Jewish life? The Old World in Image and Imagination. How do American Jews “know what they think they know” about pre-Holocaust European Jewish life? Chicago YIVO Society hosts this free zoom event by Dr. Sheila Jelen as she examines the role that images by photographers such as Roma...
Duo Controverso Klezmer Concert
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Concert Presented April 24, 2022 Annette Bjorling (harp) and Kurt Bjorling (clarinet, basset-horn) present a musical journey through different eras and styles of klezmer. The program includes liturgical music, virtuosic mazltovs and celebratory dances, as well as instrumental versions of traditional folk songs. Based on research and musical exploration of traditional East European Yiddish weddi...
Corned Beef and Camaraderie: The Jewish Deli in Chicago with Ted Merwin
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Lecture Presented April 3, 2022 Few locations of Jewish life rival the delicatessen for its place in the hearts-and stomachs-of Jews in Chicagoland. Especially for those who had gravitated away from shul attendance and strict religious observance, the deli became a kind of surrogate synagogue, a home away from home where Jews of all backgrounds could nurture and sustain community over no more t...
“AF PURIM DARF MEN LAKHN!” - “ON PURIM YOU GOTTA LAUGH!” with Stewart Figa
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Concert Presented March 13, 2022 Cantor, actor, and Yiddish performer Stewart Figa returns to Chicago YIVO to present a program of humorous Yiddish songs, jokes and stories keeping with the fun of the holiday of Purim. Figa pays tribute to such Jewish comedy legends Menashe Skulnik, Aaron Lebedeff, Mickey Katz, Bruce Adler, Allen Sherman and others. Accompanied on piano by Ilya Levinson, much o...
Lakhn iz Gezunt! Keep Laughing! with Barry Schechter
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Event held February 20, 2022. Rabbi Schechter will lift spirits with the most potent mixture known for spirit-lifting: Yiddish and Laughter. Sholem Aleichem said: LAKHN IZ GEZUNT, DOKTOIRIM HEYSSN LAKHN, “Laughter is healthy, Doctors prescribe laughter.” Never has this prescription been more necessary than now, after two years of Pandemification, Zoomification, and Meshuggefication. Rabbi Schec...
Dress Rehearsal for Dreyfus: The Duchesse de Berry, Simon Deutz & France’s First Antisemitic Affaire
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Dress Rehearsal for Dreyfus: The Duchesse de Berry, Simon Deutz & France’s First Antisemitic Affaire
Lecture in Yiddish with Dr. Yitskhok Niborski - „ייִדיש אין פּאַריז : דער ווילן צו פֿאַרטיפֿן“
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Lecture in Yiddish with Dr. Yitskhok Niborski - „ייִדיש אין פּאַרי : דער ווילן צו פֿאַרטיפֿן“
Lecture in Russian- Boris Sandler: Еврейские писатели, их произведения и издания на идише - сегодня
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Lecture in Russian- Boris Sandler: Еврейские писатели, их произведения и издания на идише - сегодня
Crossing The Border with Michael Alpert and Gica Loening
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Crossing The Border with Michael Alpert and Gica Loening
Sutzkever's Forgotten Chronicle of the Vilna Ghetto
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Sutzkever's Forgotten Chronicle of the Vilna Ghetto
Concert with Maxwell Street Klezmer Band
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Concert with Maxwell Street Klezmer Band
The Long Road "Home": Returning to Germany after the Holocaust - Lecture with Anette Isaacs
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The Long Road "Home": Returning to Germany after the Holocaust - Lecture with Anette Isaacs
Vanishing Worlds: Music in the Diaspora with Steve Gibons
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Vanishing Worlds: Music in the Diaspora with Steve Gibons
Lecture in Russian with Boris Sandler: О СЕБЕ И МОИХ ЕВРЕЙСКИХ БАШМАКАХ
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Lecture in Russian with Boris Sandler: О СЕБЕ И МОИХ ЕВРЕЙСКИХ БАШМАКАХ
Yerushe: Bringing the Archive to Life with Eléonore Biezunski
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Yerushe: Bringing the Archive to Life with Eléonore Biezunski
Beautiful
Thank you, Cantor Figa, for a fun and enlightening presentation...David Shore.
Hey mr Gibons I was a student of yours in a inner city elementary school over 15 years ago. I remember you gave me one of your string quartet cds (a red one) do you happen to have that cd up online? I remember your rendition of Spain was and is my absolute favorite.
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Я обожаю эту книгу,, ступени к чуду,, читаю и перечитываю. Я бежала в той толпе за тем старьевщиком и выменяла за бабушкин протертый халат на свисток и была счастлива. Только это было в Казахстане, куда моих родителей выслали в 1937 году. Когда я читаю эту книгу я возвращаюсь в свое детство.
groysn dank shikager yivo fun krinik in poyln