Monday, November 2, 2009

YIVO Programs of Interest

Upcoming YIVO Programs

NOTE: The lecture "Remembering (in) the Mother Tongue" by Hannah Pressman originally scheduled for Thursday, November 12 has been postponed until Thursday, May 13, 2010.

ESTABLISHING BEYS YA'AKOV: LEGITIMIZING GIRL'S RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER | 3PM

DORA AND MAYER TENDLER FELLOWSHIP LECTURE · MAX WEINREICH CENTER



Agnieszka Oleszak
University College London

This presentation aims to reconstruct the history of establishing Beys Ya'akov in 1917 in Krakow as well as to explain the process of its institutionalization. This early stage in the history of Beys Ya'akov seems to be neglected in the existing research, most likely due to the lack of historical sources. In her presentationOleszak will attempt to shed new light on the early years of the school in order to illustrate the process of legitimizing the idea of institutionalized religious education for Jewish girls.

Admission: Free
RSVP: 917.606.8290 | nkahn@yivo.cjh.org
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DI ROYTE YIDLEKH: FROM HEROIC MUSCLE JEWS TO LITTLE REDHEADS
THURSDAY 17 DECEMBER | 12PM

DINA ABRAMOWICZ EMERGING SCHOLAR FELLOWSHIP LECTURE · MAX WEINREICH CENTER

Dr. Rebekka Voss

The lecture traces the Yiddish term and legend of the Red Jews, the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, to its origins in Medieval German lore. It explores what different meanings the Jewish notion of the Red Jews has acquired over the centuries, how the term has been filled and refilled with new content in order to express larger ideas, central to the Jewish experience from the early modern times through modernity.

Admission: Free
RSVP: 917.606.8290 | nkahn@yivo.cjh.org

All events take place at the
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research | 15 West 16th Street
New York | NY | 10011
www.yivo.org

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