The Gymnasium Yavne: Lithuanian Jewish Girls’ Education in Telz
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Max Weinreich Fellowship Lecture in Baltic Jewish Studies
The Abram and Fannie Gottlieb Immerman and Abraham Nathan and Bertha Daskal Weinstein Memorial Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Studies, the Abraham and Rachela Melezin Memorial Fellowship and the Maria Salit-Gitelson Tell Memorial Fellowship |
Isabelle Rozenbaumas’s multi-part project, “Bat Kama At?” (How old are you?) is an archive documenting the history and culture of Lithuanian Jewry through the lens of Jewish education for girls in Telz, Lithuania during the interwar period. This lecture will reflect on Rozenbaumas’s research process through archival documents, oral testimonies, photographs, eyewitness accounts, and yizkor-bikher (memorial books). Rozenbaumas will outline her efforts in teaching with these materials, as well as her work developing an open-space installation in the marketplace of Telsiai.
About the Speaker
Isabelle Rozenbaumas is a noted translator from English and Yiddish into French. She has also worked at the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, in Paris, and at the YIVO Institute in New York. In 2002, she and Michel Grosman produced the film Nemt: une langue sans peuple pour un peuple sans langue, or “Take! A Language Without A People For A People Without A Language,” which documents the history of Yiddish life in Vilnius, Lithuania during the Holocaust era and today. In 2008, she founded “Bat Kama At,” a historical, educational and artistic project about the history and culture of Lithuanian Jewry, through the lens of Jewish education for women in Telz during the interwar period.