Dear Ha-Safran members, You are cordially invited to attend the next YIVO Ruth Gay Seminar to be given by Professor David Fishman on Monday November 24 at 7 pm. RSVP required, details below, best wishes, Fruma Mohrer, Senior Archivist ________________________________
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents: Ruth Gay Seminar in Jewish Studies Topic: "If Books Could Talk: The Story of Three Jewish Treasures Rescued from the Vilna Ghetto" Presenter: David E. Fishman, Jewish Theological Seminary Monday, November 24, 2014| 7 PM Admission: Free RSVP Required: yivo.org/reservations<http://yivo.org/reservations> | (212) 294-8301 x 5167 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 David Fishman selects three of the extraordinary items saved by the Yiddish poets Abraham Sutzkever and Szmerke Kaczerginski —Theodor Herzl’s diary, the minute-book from the Vilna Gaon’s synagogue, and an original manuscript of Jacob Gordin’s classic Yiddish play Mirele Efros—and reveals their "biographies": their composition and significance; the story of their acquisition by YIVO; their rescue; and their retrieval after Vilna's liberation. David E. Fishman is professor of Jewish History at The Jewish Theological Seminary, and serves as director of Project Judaica, a Jewish-studies program based in Moscow that is sponsored jointly by JTS and Russian State University for the Humanities. Fishman is the author of numerous books and articles on the history and culture of East European Jewry, including Russia's First Modern Jews (New York University Press) and The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture (University of Pittsburgh Press). He has taught at universities in Israel, Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania, and serves on the editorial boards of Jewish Social Studies and Polin. The Ruth Gay Seminar in Jewish Studies was established in 2008 in honor of Ruth Gay (1922-2006), the noted American Jewish historian and writer, with a generous gift from the family of Ruth Gay. The seminar series is given by scholars who have conducted research in the YIVO Archives and wish to share their work with the public. __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
