Date: Monday, May 7, 2012. 5:15 PM.
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 BloomingtonFor the last decade, the speaker has been conducting a major ethnographic study of surviving shtetls in Eastern Europe, compiling some 900 hours of videotaped oral history, primarily in Yiddish, that will soon be made into a documentary. Each of these talks, sponsored by the Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture series, will speak to what this research reveals about the history of Russian and Yiddish speaking Jews.
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 BloomingtonFor the last decade, the speaker has been conducting a major ethnographic study of surviving shtetls in Eastern Europe, compiling some 900 hours of videotaped oral history, primarily in Yiddish, that will soon be made into a documentary. Each of these talks, sponsored by the Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture series, will speak to what this research reveals about the history of Russian and Yiddish speaking Jews.