Conferences in French

Galicia as told by her sons  A story in four languages  Cycle of five monthly lectures in French by Irène Wekstein & Martine Grinberg In Yiddish, Hebrew, German and Polish a great many writers born in Galicia sang of their “paradise lost”, a region ill-treated by history but has no equivalent in modern world. Wednesday March 9 mars at 9:00pm3/5 In German: Galicia as the lost object.  Joseph Roth.  Reservations: Maison de la culture yiddish-Bibliothèque Medem, +33(0)1 47 00 14 00 ... [Lire la suite]

American filiations CYCLE OF 5 MONTHLY CONFeRENCES BY IRÈNE WEKSTEIN & MARTINE GRINBERG Wednesday April 14 at 8:00pm4/5 Who bam I and who is the Other: about The Tenants  by Bernard Malamud. Reservations at the Paris Yiddish Centre +33(0)1 47 00 14 00 Contribution: 5 €. Members: 3 €.

American filiations CYCLE OF 5 MONTHLY CONFeRENCES BY IRÈNE WEKSTEIN & MARTINE GRINBERG Wednesday March 10 at 8pm  3/5 Gangsters and Jewish "tough guys": from Isaac Babel to Jerome Charyn For all 5 conferences: 20 €. Members: 12 €.Reservations at the Paris Yiddish Centre - Medem Library +33(0)1 47 00 14 00 Contribution: 5 €. Members: 3 €.

American filiations Cycle of 5 conferences by Irène Wekstein & Martine Grinberg  Wednesday Jan. 6 at 8:00pm The history of Jewish literature in Eastern Europe was short. The writers who incarnated it during more than a century, both in its tradition and its blazing attempt at modernity, could not develop their talents.   However, the voice did not die away. It speaks from a different continent, in a different language. It confronts different realities; it transforms itself, giving posterity to the Yiddish... [Lire la suite]

Cycle of 7 monthly conferences in French by Philippe Boukara Tuesday Jan. 19 at 8:30pm 4/7 Nathan Birnbaum, Nahman Syrkin, Ber Borochov. Zionism and/or socialism?  Each conference: 5 €. Members: 3 €. Mandatory reservation at +33(0)1 47 00 14 00. Men of thought and of action – A few figures of the Yiddish modernity

Cycle of 7 monthly conferences in French by Philippe Boukara Tuesday November 17 at 8:30pm2/7 Victor Alter, Henryk Erlich, Raphaël Abramovitch - three Bundist destinies.One conference: 5 €. Members: 3 €. Mandatory reservations at +33(0)1 47 00 14 00. Men of thought and of action - A few figures of Yiddish modernity

Encounter with Annette Wieviorka and Jean-Charles Szurekauthors of the book Juifs et Polonais : 1939 - 2008. (Jews and Poles: 1939 - 2008)Lead by Natalie Levisalles, journalist at LibérationTuesday, September 15 at 8:00pm Restricted by the Communist ideology, the memory of the fate of Polish Jews was erased in the Polish consciousness until the years 1980. Recently this past re-emerged in the public debate. The discovery of the massacre of Jedwabne, a village in north-eastern Poland, where in July 1941 the Jewish population was... [Lire la suite]

If you were unable to attend to one of the conferences at the Paris Yiddish Centre, you can still view it on-line at the site Akadem :New releases: Jean-Claude Grumberg & Pierre Assouline (moderator), Le rire comme règlement de comptes (Laughter as a mean for setting accounts) (conference held in March 2009): http://www.akadem.org/sommaire/module_6358.php Yitskhok Niborski, Humour, satire et  poésie (Humor, satire and poetry) (conference held in March 2009): http://www.akadem.org/sommaire/themes/liturgie/8/2/module_5662.php... [Lire la suite]