Memorial for Soviet Yiddish Writers

murdered on August 12th, 1952

טרויער־אַקאַדעמיע

The Congress for Jewish Culture, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the Yiddish Forward, the Workmen's Circle and the Jewish Labor Committee invite you to a special gathering marking 60 years since the Soviet regime executed the Yiddish writers active with the Jewish Antifascist Committee:

Dovid Bergelson, Itzik Fefer, Dovid Hofshteyn, Leyb Kvitko and Perets Markish.

Join us as we remember them and read and sing from their works and the works of other Yiddish writers who suffered under the Soviet regime.

The program will be in Yiddish with some translation into English.

Chair: Professor Thomas Bird of Queens College;

In the program: Boris Sandler, Paula Teitelbaum, Hy Wolfe, Shane Baker, David Mandelbaum, and Dr. Paul Glasser and introducing a special short subject based on Markish's "Shards" by Australian neon animator Jack Feldstein

DATE: Sunday, August 12th, 2012

TIME: 3 PM

LOCATION:
YIVO/ Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, Manhattan, 10011

 

Admission free WITH RESERVATION

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 or call 212-294-6139