Sunday, June 7, 6:30 pm
Isaac Babel: Life and Works
Conversation
Presented by YIVO Institute, the Russian American Foundation and RTVi (Independent Russian TV Network), as part of the 13th Annual Russian Heritage Month®
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Sunday, June 7, 8 pm
Touchdown Israel
Film
Presented by American Jewish…
The rare books and artifacts in this exhibit, Sephardic Journeys, reflect a rich tradition of scholarship and culture shaped by migrations, and they invite, in turn, reflection upon the physical, emotional and spiritual journeys of Jewish history.
Item above:
Sefer Chesed L’Avraham (ספר חסד לאברהם)
Avraham ben R. Shalom Tubiana
Ṿalansi (Izmir, 1764)
Hebrew
A truly Sephardic item, the…
Sunday, May 31, 3 pm
Music in Our Time: 2015
Concert
Presented by American Society for Jewish Music and American Jewish Historical Society
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Monday, June 1
An Evening with David B. Yoffie
Dr. Yoffie will be discussing topics from his recent book Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill…
“Knaidel” is the Winning Word
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish HistoryPerhaps you heard that a Yiddish word won the National Spelling Bee for Arvind Mahankali. Yes, knaidel is spelled K-n-a-i-d-e-l according to Webster’s Third New International Dictionary–the official dictionary of the National Spelling Bee. As you may know, Yiddish is a…