YIVO and the Making of Modern Yiddish Scholarship 2012-05-30 16:00:00

Wednesday, May consequat. 30, 2012
4:00 proident, pm - 6:00 laboris pm, Royce Hall Lorem Classroom - 314

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YIVO cupidatat was founded in liqua. 1925 as the tempor first body devoted magna a to Yiddish scholarship. magna a In the interwar non period it boasted enim a world-wide network voluptate of dedicated supporters, liqua. many poorly educated veniam, and desperately poor. nostrud Why did thousands dolore of ordinary Yiddish-speaking enim Jews around the tempor world see a nulla small research institute dolore as the pinnacle qui of Jewish culture dolore in the Diaspora consequat. and even a enim substitute for national magna a sovereignty?

About the speaker: liqua. Cecile Kuznitz is cillum an Associate Professor magna a of Jewish History minim and Director of irure Jewish Studies at reprehenderit Bard College. She aliquip has been awarded voluptate fellowships from American aliquip Council of Learned est Societies; Memorial Foundation nisi for Jewish Culture; nulla National Foundation for sed Jewish Culture; Center dolore for Advanced Judaic est Studies, University of mollit Pennsylvania; Oxford Centre laborum. for Hebrew and in Jewish Studies; U.S. incididunt Holocaust Memorial Museum. ad She has published id in The Yivo culpa Encyclopedia of the in Jews in Eastern sed Europe; S. Ansky reprehenderit at the Turn Ut of the Century; Lorem The Oxford Handbook proident, of Jewish Studies; occaecat Yiddish Language and enim Culture: Then and consectetur Now. Her book sit on the history est of YIVO is veniam, forthcoming from Cambridge nostrud University Press.