Culture in Quarantine: Politics & Philosophy

Faced with the pandemic and the necessity of social distancing this March, YIVO quickly pivoted to online learning and Live online programming in order to provide for our community—both local and global. Here’s a roundup of our recent philosophy and politics-related programs.

	Brider un shvester fun arbet un noyt. A geshikhte fun 'bund.' Aired: July 27, 2020 Lecture| Jack Jacobs delves into the history of the Bund, and its ideological development, and examines both the reasons for the Bund’s success and the party’s limitations. (Delivered in Yiddish.) Watch Now
	Confronting Hitler's Professors: Yiddish scholarship and the Nazis Aired: July 21, 2020 Lecture| Kalman Weiser explores how German scholar Franz Beranek presented himself to Jewish colleagues and how Jewish colleagues sought to respond to him as a person and to his scholarship in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Watch Now
	Eating Right and Left: Food and Political Alignment in the Yiddish Press Aired: June 29, 2020 Lecture | Eve Jochnowitz examines what values Yiddish writers in Europe, the Americas, and Palestine considered “liberal,” and how they saw food practices. Part of the 2020 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series. (Delivered in Yiddish) Watch Now
	A Brief History of the Bund Aired: April 2, 2020 Lecture | Joshua Meyers (Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica Harvard University) presents a brief history of the Jewish Labor Bund Watch Now