*IN YIDDISH* Cecile Kuznitz, Visnshaft in a moment fun krizis: dem yivos opruf afn khurbn
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Himel Family Yiddish Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by the Al and Malka Green Fund in Yiddish Studies
Cecile Kuznitz (Bard College)
Visnshaft in a moment fun krizis: dem yivos opruf afn khurbn
As early as 1940 YIVO (the Yiddish Scientific Institute, the first center for Yiddish scholarship) be-gan informing the North American public about the unfolding tragedy of European Jewry, thus be-coming one of the earliest conduits of information about the Holocaust. Yet even as it grappled with the scope of the losses in the Old Country, it did not abandon its scholarly principles. In its new American home the institute retained its commitment to addressing current day problems, be-coming a pioneer in researching the Holocaust and memorializing its victims.
Cecile E. Kuznitz is Associate Professor and Patricia Ross Weis '52 Chair in Jewish History and Culture at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY). She is the author of YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation as well as numerous articles on the Jewish community of Vilna, the history of Yiddish scholarship, and Jewish urban history. She was a Lady Davis Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2022 and has held fellowships at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
This event is conducted entirely in Yiddish.