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Debora Vogel: The Most Important Jewish Modernist Thinker and Yiddish Poet You Never Heard Of
Please Note Time Change This Meeting Only: Sunday, April 7, 2024 - 4:00-5:30 pm Pacific Anastasiya Lyubas, Blooming Spaces: The Collected...
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Frankist Antinomianism: Or, how I broke the rules of the Jews and became Messiah
Don't miss Part III of our discussion of The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk Sunday, May 28, 2023, 3:00-4:30 pm Pacific If you are left...
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The Books of Jacob: Notes (and New Sources!) for the Daunted Reader
Sunday, March 5, 2023 pp. 965-643 Sunday, April 16, 2023 pp. 642-327 Sunday, May 28, 2023, pp. 323-1 All dates: 3:00-4:30 Pacific Time...
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In Memory of Memory, by Maria Stepanova, Translated by Sasha Dugdale
Sunday, August 13, 2023, 3:00-4:30 pm
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Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Zabuzhko, Translated by Halyna Hryn
Sunday, July 2, 2023, 3:00-4:30 pm Pacific Time
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Grey Bees with Translator Boris Dralyuk
Sunday, January 22, 2023, 3-4:30 pm Pacific Time The Yiddish Schmoozers welcome Boris Dralyuk to our upcoming January discussion of...
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Ukraine. Ukraine. Serhiy Zhadan's The Orphanage.
Sunday, December 4, 2022, 3:00-4:30 pm Pacific Thoughts and Questions for Discussion by Leah Light, Matthew Light, Igor Mikhaylov 1. What...
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Goldie Morgentaler Discusses Her Mother Chava Rosenfarb's Modern Yiddish Stories, "Survivors"
Sunday, October 30, 2022, 5:00-6:30 pm EST Video Recording Available Dr. Goldie Morgentaler is Professor of English at the University of...
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Any Minute! Red Cavalry is Coming!
Sunday, September 11, 2022, 3:00-4:30 pm "By far, the best-known 'chronicler' of the Polish-Soviet War was the Odesa-born Russian Jewish...
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Prepare to Meet the King! The Odessa Stories, August 7!
Sunday, August 7, 2022, 3:00-4:30 pm Pacific Time Scroll for Zoom link . . . Meet Benya Krik, Jewish gangster and King of Odessa's Jewish...
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Rosenfarb's Tree of Life Trilogy: It Takes a Village to Piece It Together
CORRECTED: Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:30-7:00 pm Pacific Time Save the date to discuss Book III and the overall arc of the book, the...
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Chava Rosenfarb, The Tree of Life, Book 2: From the Depths I Call You, 1940-1942
Saturday, February 19, 2022, 5:00-6:30 pm Pacific. Read the essay "How I Came to Not Fear Reading 'Another' Holocaust Novel," by Rabbi...
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Kadya Molodowsky: A Jewish Refugee in New York. . . and Meet Translator Anita Norich!
NEXT YIDDISH SCHMOOZERS DEC 4
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Chava Rosenfarb: The Tree of Life, Book 1, On the Brink of the Precipice, 1939
Saturday, November 13, 2021, 5:00-6:30 pm Pacific Chava Rosenfarb (1923-2011) grew up in a working class family in Lodz, Poland, in which...
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Vilna My Vilna - Stories by Abraham Karpinowitz
Saturday, September 25, 2021--5:30-7:30 pm Pacific We should read Abraham Karpinowitz's stories of Vilna for a much-needed complement--if...
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The Yeshiva: Chaim Grade Parts 4 & 5
Saturday, September 4, 2021, 5:00-7:00 pm Pacific The book, The Yeshiva, is out of print. A digital copy is available:...
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The Yeshiva: The Jerusalem of Lithuania's Greatest Novelist-- Chaim Grade's--Greatest Novel
PARTS 1-3 Saturday, August 7, 2021, 5:00 - 7:00 pm Pacific PARTS 4-5 Saturday, September 4, 2021, 5:00-7:00 pm Pacific ACCESSING THE...
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MORE MASHBER! BOOK II
Saturday, May 29, 2021 - 5:30-7:30 pm Pacific
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Der Nister: THE FAMILY MASHBER
Please note the date change! More time to read and discuss this 700-page book! Scroll to bottom to download a copy of this essay. New...
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Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav: The Tales
Saturday, March 6, 2021, 6 pm Pacific Facilitator: Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak will teach on the stories of R. Nachman, focusing on The Lost...
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