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Banner image for Shakespeare & Company’s winter show, a lively staged reading of Emma by Kate Hamill, directed by Ariel Bock. The background features a whimsical, patterned design with floral and leafy motifs. Centered on the right, an illustration shows a Regency-era woman lounging on an ornate, red-patterned chair, gazing at herself in an antique, oval mirror. The dates, December 13–15, and venue, Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, are highlighted in bold yellow and white text, with a red 'Get Tickets' button below. A 'Winter Show' banner appears in the upper-right corner.

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How the Holocaust Changed the Yiddish Language, with Hannah Pollin-Galay

Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St., Amherst, MA, United States

During and immediately after World War II, Eastern European Jews perceived a radical transformation in the Yiddish language. This perception inspired some intellectuals to create dictionaries and glossaries that deciphered the metamorphosis of Yiddish words. Others incorporated this new strain of Yiddish into their poetry and prose. In this conversation, Hannah will explore Khurbn Yiddish (Yiddish of the Holocaust) as a form of Holocaust memory. Following the conversation there will be a book signing.

Free

The Art of Jewish Papercutting with Deborah Ugoretz

Virtual zoom 395 Main St. Union Block, Dalton, MA, United States

Artist Deborah Ugoretz first discovered Jewish papercutting forty-seven years ago. Since then she has worked with textual sources like the Bible, rabbinical teachings, and poetry, converting them into visual language as a way to communicate their profound meaning. In this session, Deborah will present the iconography of papercutting and illustrate how “ordinary folks” created particularly Jewish papercuts. She will show antique papercuts from 18th-century Eastern Europe, Italian Ketubot, and samples of her own work.

Free

Conversation with professor Samuel Kassow, translator of Warsaw Testament

Virtual zoom 395 Main St. Union Block, Dalton, MA, United States

Join us for an evening in conversation with renowned scholar Samuel Kassow (Trinity College) about his new translation of Rokhl Auerbach’s Warsaw Testament, published by the Center’s White Goat Press in 2024. Based on her wartime writings and participation in the secret Oyneg Shabes Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto, Auerbach’s memoir paints a vivid portrait of the city’s prewar Yiddish literary and artistic community and of its destruction at the hands of the Nazis.

Free

Yidish in ale lender: Yiddish around the World, with Christa P. Whitney

Virtual zoom 395 Main St. Union Block, Dalton, MA, United States

Yiddish represents an international diasporic culture, found in many unexpected corners of the globe. In this presentation, Christa P. Whitney, director of the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, will explore the local influences of Yiddish culture based on her work capturing oral histories over the past fifteen years. Christa’s talk will feature videos of Yiddish speakers from Vilna to Toronto, Melbourne to Birobidzhan, with several stops in between. These interviews reveal the global nature of Yiddish culture and how it adapts to its local context, illuminating the similarities among diverse communities of Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews across the globe.

Free