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October 2021
Guest Lecture (virtual): Weijia Li on “The German-Jewish Diaspora — From China to the US”
Live Virtual Lecture The German-Jewish Diaspora and its Cross-Pacific Experience: From China to the United States Weijia Li (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Tuesday, October 19, 6:00 p.m. Central Time Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Email…
Find out more »A World Within Worlds: Tsvey Brider in Concert
Join us for a night of live music with Anthony Russell and Dmitri Gaskin as they perform the music they've created together as the Yiddish songwriting duo Tsvey Brider. Thursday, October 28 4:00pm (Central…
Find out more »November 2021
Virtual Guest Lecture: Shoshana Ronen (Univ. of Warsaw) on “Post-Holocaust Hebrew and Polish Poetry”
The Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies presents a lecture in honor of Rachel Feldhay Brenner z"l "Post-Holocaust Hebrew and Polish Poetry, and Some Lessons it Holds for the Post-Holocaust World" Shoshana Ronen (University of Warsaw)…
Find out more »Guest Lecture: Rabbi Matthew Kaufman on “Science and Secularization in a Jewish Key”
"Science and Secularization in a Jewish Key" Rabbi Matthew Kaufman, PhD (Congregation Kehillat Israel) Tuesday, November 16 at 4:00pm (Central Time) To be held online, via Zoom. To receive the Zoom information, please register in…
Find out more »January 2022
COVID in Context: Health Culture among Yiddish and Pennsylvania Dutch Speakers
The Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture & The Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies present Covid in Context: Health Culture among Yiddish & Pennsylvania Dutch Speakers A panel discussion featuring Zackary Sholem Berger, Heather Munro,…
Find out more »February 2022
VIRTUAL EVENT – Book Talk with Magda Teter on “Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth”
Join us for a virtual book talk with Prof. Magda Teter (Fordham University). In conversation with Brandon Bloch (Professor of History, UW-Madison), Prof. Teter will discuss her new book Blood Libel: On the Trail of…
Find out more »March 2022
Mayrent Institute Event (virtual): “On Translating Yiddish: New Ventures in the American Yiddish Press”
The Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture presents On Translating Yiddish: New Ventures in the American Yiddish Press A panel discussion with Madeleine (Mindl) Cohen, Jordan Finkin, and Jessica Kirzane Thursday, March 10 3:00 PM (Central)…
Find out more »Virtual Lecture with Ukrainian Yiddishist Oksana Shcherba on Yiddish-Ukrainian Translation
The Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture presents Yiddish-Ukrainian Translation A lecture and discussion with Ukrainian Yiddishist Oksana Shcherba Monday, March 14 10:00 AM (U.S. Central Time) Via Zoom – Please register in advance using the…
Find out more »The Conney Conference on Jewish Arts: The Jewish Arts in an Expanded Field
We are pleased to announce the 8th biennial Conney Conference on Jewish Arts! This year’s conference will be held at the at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Pyle Center), celebrating 18 years since the founding of The…
Find out more »April 2022
Weinstein-Minkoff Lecture with Kenneth Moss (Univ. of Chicago): “Palestine as Possibility: Polish Jews and the Yishuv as Fact in the 1930s”
The Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies presents The 2022 Weinstein-Minkoff Lecture in Israel Studies "Palestine as Possibility: Polish Jews and the Yishuv as Fact in the 1930s" Kenneth B. Moss (Professor of Jewish History, The…
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