Community Open House
Join us for a day of events.
Featuring the Melinda Rosenblatt Lecture: "America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today," presented by Pamela Nadell
All events are free and open to the public.
Schedule
2 p.m. | The 2019 Melinda Rosenblatt Lecture presented by Pamela Nadell: "America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today"
Pamela Nadell's book presents a groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history.
An internationally acclaimed scholar, Pamela Nadell's research spans the breadth of the 350 years of the American Jewish experience with a special focus on women, gender, and religion.
Pamela S. Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender History at American University, chairs American University's Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies Collaborative, and is Director of the Jewish Studies Program.
All Day | EXHIBIT OPENING | The Posthumous Landscape: Jewish Historical Sites in Poland and Western Ukraine
Toronto-based architectural photographer, David Kaufman, has made nine trips to Poland and western Ukraine to photograph the remnants of Jewish life that remain following the destruction of local Jewish communities under the Nazis and in the Soviet era. Kaufman's large scale, highly detailed images of synagogues and cemeteries, architecture and streetscapes, are a testament to the rich, varied lives led by Jews in cities and towns over centuries and a reminder of the challenges in preserving Jewish material culture in countries that have few Jews today and meager resources.
Opening in the Yiddish Book Center's Brechner Gallery April 28, 2019.
11 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. | Tour the world's first Yiddish museum!
This 45-minute tour takes the visitor through the Yiddish Book Center's museum exhibits and allows them to...
DISCOVER the whole of Yiddish literature and its writers
LEARN about Yiddish language
ENCOUNTER the stories of three immigrant families told through words, pictures, and artifacts
EXPERIENCE the world of rural Jews in 1912-1914
GLIMPSE life in the American Jewish home
EXPLORE a Yiddish print shop
WATCH classic Yiddish film clips
LISTEN to vintage Yiddish radio
SEE our visiting exhibits
TOUR the Yiddish Writers Garden, and more
PLEASE NOTE: Lineup is subject to change.