Through educational, cultural and engagement programs, the Committee for Yiddish, UJA Federation fosters and promotes Yiddish language and culture - indeed the entire Ashkenaz tradition - as a vibrant part of contemporary Jewish life and as a vital link between the Jewish past and future.
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Culture
- "Debora Vogel: Wandering Star of Yiddish Literature", Anastasiya Lyubas in Conversation with Miri Koral
- "The Fabulous Dr. May Cohen" Film Q&A with May Cohen, Sharon Hampson, Sol Hermolin
- "On the Edge of the Volcano: Yiddish Literature in Berlin Before the Third Reich" with Dr. Rachel Seelig
- "From Radical Poets to Rabbinical Scholars: The Yiddish Voices of Kensington Market" with Vivian Felsen
- "Plagues in Yiddish Literature", Online Lecture with Dr. Miriam Trinh
- "Over the Moon: From the shtetl to the City of Lights, the True Colors of Marc Chagall in Eygens" with Chantal Ringuet
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Past Lectures
- "A Jewish Refugee in New York: A Novel by Kadya Molodovsky" with Prof. Anita Norich
- HEW 2019 Lecture: "The Legacy of the Yiddish Writer Debora Vogel" with Dr. Anastasiya Lyubas
- "Celebrating the Poetry of Simcha Simchovitch" with Gerry Kane and Cantor Sidney Ezer
- "When Jesus Spoke Yiddish" with Prof. Naomi Seidman
- "The Holocaust in the Soviet Union: New Discoveries" with Prof. Anna Shternshis
- "Whitechapel Noise" with Vivi Lachs
- "Einstein's Theory of Relativity" with Jordan Chad
- "Wit and Humor: Celebrating Sholem Aleichem" with Miriam Udel
- "A Disenchanted Elijah: S. Ansky's Destruction of Galicia" with Prof. Marc Caplan
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