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Rare and unpublished works represent the collective memory and cultural history of Eastern European and Russian Jews.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents a two-day conference on Jews in and after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Professor Steven J. Zipperstein of Stanford is the lead academic advisor.

The program will consist of formal presentations on Bund history, performances of songs and poetry (in English and Yiddish) and commentary by contemporary activists.

A modernist Yiddish poet addresses God.

A cartoon demonstrates the raucousness of Jewish communal politics before the war.

A conference explores introducing American Jewry to Yiddish culture and literature.

A satirical ditty by two leading lights of the Jewish avant garde in interwar Poland.

Though a Germanic language, Yiddish is written with the Hebrew alphabet, and contains many Hebrew words. The Hebrew component of Yiddish is referred to as Loshn-koydesh – holy language.

Six men who played essential roles in the emergence of secular Jewish culture and modern Jewish political movements.

The first Hebrew novel was an attack on Hasidism by a follower of the Haskalah.