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2014

Albanian-Jewish Relations and the Contributions of U.S. Ambassador to Albania, Herman Bernstein (1876-1935)
Video on YouTube
December 14, 2014
Klezmer Influences in American Jewish Music
Video on YouTube
December 02, 2014
If Books Could Talk: The Story of Three Jewish Treasures Rescued from the Vilna Ghetto
Video on YouTube
November 24, 2014
Towards Life: Reviving Jewish Life in Contemporary Poland
Video on YouTube
November 20, 2014
Creating History: Can We Tell the Past?
Video on YouTube
October 30, 2014
Making/History: Reconstructing the Gwoździec Synagogue
Video on YouTube
October 12, 2014
Farewell to Communism: Howard Fast and Soviet Yiddish Writers
Video on YouTube
October 07, 2014
Taras Shevchenko: Ukrainian Nationalism, Poetry and the Jews
Audio on YouTube
September 30, 2014
Commemorating the Vilna Jewish Community
Video on YouTube
September 21, 2014
Golde and Her Daughters: Soviet Jewish Women Under Stalin
Audio on YouTube
September 15, 2014
Abraham Sutzkever: The Power in Poetry
Video on YouTube
September 10, 2014
The Capital of Yiddishland: YIVO and its Relationship to Vilna
Audio on YouTube
July 22, 2014
Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America
Video on YouTube
June 17, 2014
Jewish-Christian Relations in Poland: How One Town Overcame Its Past
Audio on YouTube
June 12, 2014
Rethinking Jabotinsky
Video on YouTube
June 02, 2014
YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation
Video on YouTube
May 15, 2014
Open Secret: The Jewish Sound in Soviet Music
Video on YouTube
May 04, 2014
The Life and Art of Krystiana Robb-Narbutt (1945-2006)
Audio on YouTube
April 28, 2014
The Forbidden Tragedy: History and Memory of the Shoah in the Soviet Union
Audio on YouTube
April 27, 2014
What Now? Jews and the Ukrainian Revolution 2014
Video on YouTube
April 24, 2014
Passing the Torch: Jewish Music Archives and the Future of Yiddish Song
Video on YouTube
April 06, 2014
Video on YouTube
April 06, 2014
Eastern Jews—Western Jews: World War I and the Transformation of the Jewish Experience
Video on YouTube
March 30, 2014
Beyond the Myth of the Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe
Audio on YouTube
March 19, 2014
Jacob Glatstein: A Yiddish Genius in Anglicizing America
Audio on YouTube
March 04, 2014
YIVO, Freud, and American Jewry: Discourse on Eastern Europe as a “Talking Cure” for American Jewish Ambivalence
Audio on YouTube
February 25, 2014
The Impact of World War I and the Russian Revolution on the World of Russian and East European Jewry
Video on YouTube
February 19, 2014
Unresolved History: Jews and Lithuanians After the Holocaust
Video on YouTube
February 14, 2014
Y. L. Peretz in a Time of Revolution
Audio on YouTube
February 06, 2014
Rethinking Kishinev: How a Riot Changed 20th Century Jewish History
Video on YouTube
January 06, 2014