YIVO Yiddish Club: Ashkenazi High Holiday Foods with Liz Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz

Yiddish Club Admission: Free Registration is required.

Nu, vilst redn a bisele yidish? An event for Yiddish enthusiasts the world over, the YIVO Yiddish club is an informal monthly gathering to celebrate Mame-loshn. Hosted by Shane Baker, sessions take place in English, and are liberally peppered with Yiddish. Each month Baker is joined by a different guest who discusses their work and a related Yiddish cultural theme. In the spirit of a club, sessions are held as interactive zoom meetings in which participants can see and hear one another. Each session includes ample time for audience questions, group discussion, and, time permitting, knock-down, drag-out arguments. Attendees need not know any Yiddish to attend, though some familiarity with the language is highly recommended.

This session features co-founders of the Gefilteria Liz Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz for a delectable discussion on Ashkenazi dishes traditionally eaten around the Jewish High Holidays.

Alpern and Yoskowitz will bring honik-lekekh (honey cake) and tsimes. While optional, all attendees are invited to bring their own favorite holiday dish to the Zoom meeting to show off and eat. Some interested attendees will be chosen at random to unmute and share their own stories about the dishes they have brought.