Thursday, AM2 In February 1913, when a grade 6 teacher at the Aberdeen School made disparaging remarks about her Jewish pupils, a small group of 12-year old boys responded by calling a general strike. Several hundred Jewish children congregated in the park across the street where they appointed strike leaders, established a negotiating committee, and [...]
Saturday, AM This presentation in Yiddish — “From the other side of the poem” – is given in honour of the 30th anniversary of the death of the Rokhl Korn. Montreal was home to one of the most refined modern Yiddish poets from 1948 to her death in 1982, a period of prolific creativity in [...]
Friday, AM1 Faculty: Eugene Orenstein
Tuesday to Friday, PM1 You can bake it; you can boil it; you can fry it or you can stuff it–you’ve still got to eat it, if only for the sake of the all the starving children who would be happy with a nice plate of lung-and-liver to go with their prune compote. We’ll look [...]
Tuesday, PM2 Ashkenazi poets in Argentina have persistently made use of Ladino and Sephardic motifs to negotiate their new Argentinean identity, notably during the waves of Eastern European immigration at the beginning of the 20th Century and during the military junta at the end of that century. Yael illustrates this kind of sephardism with two [...]
