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

Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series: "World War II in the Soviet Shetl: From Shoah to Victory Day" with Jeffrey Veidlinger

Date
Mon May 7th 2012, 5:15pm
Location:
Margaret Jacks Hall (bldg. 460) - Terrace Room (426)

Jeffrey Veidlinger, Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University in Bloomington

Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series: "Singer on the Screen: The Image of Isaac Bashevis Singer in Film and Television [Der imazh fun Bashevis-Zinger af der ekrane]" with Jeffrey Shandler

Date
Tue March 1st 2011, 12:00pm
Location:
Bldg. 200- Room 307
History Corner

The Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series 2010-2011

Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series: "Bank Machines, Board Games, and Books: The Yiddish Consumer Culture of Contemporary Hasidim" with Jeffrey Shandler

Date
Mon February 28th 2011, 8:00pm
Location:
Koret Pavilion – Hillel at Stanford
565 Mayfield Avenue, Stanford

The Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series 2010-2011

Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series: "Culture, History and Catastrophe: Emanuel Ringelblum in the Warsaw Ghetto" with Samuel Kassow

Date
Wed February 25th 2009, 8:00pm
Location:
Koret Pavilion at the Ziff Center
Hillel at Stanford, 565 Mayfield Avenue

Our speaker is Samuel Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College.

Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series: "The Image of Vilna in Modern Jewish History" with Samuel Kassow

Date
Tue February 24th 2009, 12:00pm
Location:
Koret Pavilion at the Ziff Center(2nd Floor)
Hillel at Stanford, 565 Mayfield Avenue

Oue speaker is Samuel Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College.

Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series: "Breathing Through Both Nostrils? Mendele Moicher Sforim's Yiddish/Hebrew Bilingualism and its Cultural Significance" with Dan Miron

Date
Wed March 5th 2008, 8:00pm
Location:
Stanford Humanities Center, 424 Santa Teresa Avenue

Dan Miron is the Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and an Emeritus professor of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series: "Literature as the vehicle for a nationalist "Renaissance"- the models of I. L. Peretz and Kh. N. Bialik" with Dan Miron

Date
Tue February 26th 2008, 12:00pm
Location:
Encina Hall, Room C231

Dan Miron is the Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and an Emeritus professor of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.