Glimpses of a Unique Jewish Culture From a Japanese Perspective

Join us in celebrating the publication of Prof. Yoshiji Hirose's latest book. Learn more and watch the recording.
Join us in celebrating the publication of Prof. Yoshiji Hirose's latest book. Learn more and watch the recording.
In this Yiddish-language talk, Dovid Katz speaks in deeply personal terms about his first visit to his ancestral Lithuania and Belarus in 1990, and how the trip changed the focus of his life and work for the ensuing thirty years. Learn more and watch the recording.
In the Annual Simcha Simchovitch Yiddish Lecture, Prof. Justin Jaron Lewis speaks in Yiddish about Hasidic Creativity in Yiddish Today. Learn more and watch the recording.
The UJA Committee for Yiddish and the Ontario Jewish Archives present a Canadian Jewish Heritage Month Lecture on May 2, 2021 with Vardit Lightstone, "'Why wear fur at the end of May?': Stories by Yiddish-Speaking Immigrants of Their Arrival in Canada (1890-1930)" Learn more and watch the recording.
Presenting U of T Research Fellow and author Anastasia Lyubas in conversation with Miri Koral from the California Institute of Yiddish Culture and Language in a live Zoom event. Recorded live on Zoom, Sunday, January 10, 2021, 2:00pm EST Learn More and Watch the Recording