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 Jeremiah Lockwood: "The Paradoxical Aesthetics of Hasidic Cantorial Revival"

Date
Tue February 20th 2024, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
Building 360
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), 450 Jane Stanford Way Building 360, Stanford, CA 94305
Conference Room

Lecture (in English)

Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Place: CCSRE Conference Room, Bldg. 360, first floor

 

Concert (in Yiddish)

The Annual Clara Sumpf Lecture Series featuring Amelia Glaser

Date
Wed May 3rd 2023, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location:
CCSRE Conference Room
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 360, Stanford, CA 94305

Join us for one or both of this lecture series. Amelia Glaser is Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies at UC San Diego.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series

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

The Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series

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

The Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series

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

The Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series