Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series

The Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series Fund supports a lecture series with one lecture in English and the other lecture on the same or similar topic in Yiddish. Here are a few of our most recent Clara Sumpf lectures:

Past Events

The Annual Clara Sumpf Lecture Series featuring Eddy Portnoy (day 2)

Date

Wed May 18th 2022, 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Location:

Building 260, Pigott Hall450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305Room 216

May 18

טינט, פֿעדער, און ווילדע האַנט-ליאַלקעס: די קינעטישע קונסטווערק פֿון זוני מאוד און יאָסל קאָטלער

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The Annual Clara Sumpf Lecture Series featuring Eddy Portnoy (day 1)

Date

Tue May 17th 2022, 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Location:

Green Library, Bing Wing459 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305Presentation Palace (Green Library/Hohbach Hall 122)

May 17

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The Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series featuring Dr. Cecile Kuznitz (Yiddish)

Date

Wed May 26th 2021, 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Location:

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מיר װילן דערקענען די װעלט, כּדי זי איבערצובױען׃
די ייִדישע װיסנשאַפֿט בשעתן און נאָכן חורבן

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The Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series featuring Dr. Cecile Kuznitz (English)

Date

Tue May 25th 2021, 5:00pm - 6:15pm

Location:

Zoom

Building Yiddish Culture: Doikeyt and Jewish Architecture

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Der “Tate” Stalin, Di Mame “Molly”: der yidisher komunizm tsvishn mishpokhe un melukhe

Date

Tue May 19th 2020, 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Location:

Zoom

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Make Your Limit the Sky: Yiddish Children's Literature and the Cultivation of Resilience

Date

Mon May 18th 2020, 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Location:

Zoom

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Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lectures: "Di koykhes fun der kultur, un di grenetsn derfun: di yidishe kultur kegn dem aynbrokh fun der tsukunft un dem ikh in di 1930ike yorn" with Ken Moss

Date

Fri May 3rd 2019, 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Location:

Building 360, Conference Room

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Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lectures: "Jewish Diasporism between Negative Identity and Political Vulnerability: The Politics of Adaptation, Resistance, Catastrophe, and Exit in the Polish Jewish 1930s" with Ken Moss

Date

Thu May 2nd 2019, 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Location:

Building 200, Room 307

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Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lectures: "When Yiddish was Young: Vilna's Last Generation" with Justin Cammy

Date

Mon May 14th 2018, 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Location:

History Corner, Room 307

Justin Cammy is a literary and cultural historian with research and teaching interests in Yiddish and modern Jewish literatures, Eastern European Jewish history, and Zionism and…

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