A Special Weekend Yiddish Event In L.a. – April 19-21

JOIN the film director Jeff Janeczko and CIYCL Director Miri Koral for the Q&A session immediately after the film presentation.

REGISTER FOR THE FILM SCREENING HERE

This program is part of the 3-day special event at UCLA entitled

SONIC REPRESENTATIONS OF JEWISHNESS ONSCREEN AND OFF 4-19 – 4-21

Including

AN EXTRAORDINARY YIDDISH DOUBLE BILL

Reviving Yiddish Stage and Screen in Two Parts – Sunday, April 19, 2026

with a live performance of the Yiddish opera Bas-Sheva in Schoenberg Hall at 4 PM

SEE BELOW TO REGISTER click here

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RECORDINGS OF SOME FAVORITE CIYCL PROGRAMS

(Click on the titles below to access)

Henech Kon and the Infinite Prowess of Yiddish Music, with Diana Matut

Seven Decades Strong: A Shmues with Mike Burstyn

In Memory of Soviet Yiddish Writers Murdered in August 1952

Dybbuk Remix: Dancing Between Worlds, with Karen Goodman

To Witness, Console and Lament – Katzenelson’s Ode to the Massacred Jewish People

A Gallery of Missing Husbands: Tracing Runaway Husbands and Lost Relatives

Hindcast/ Forecast: How YIVO’s Vilna Archive Digitization Helps Us Grasp Our Present and Future

To Light Our Way: Yiddish Songs and Poetry of Resistance and Resilience –

Cantor Sharon Bernstein, Mike Burstyn, Mayim Bialik, Miri Koral

The Astonishing History (and Future) of Yiddish in Universities – Prof. Kalman Weiser

The Origins of Ashkenazic Jews and Their Yiddish Language – Prof. Kalman Weiser

How Ashkenazic Jews Got Their Names and the Troubles They Have Caused Them – Prof. Kalman Weiser

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Date

Apr 16 - 19 2026

Time

4:00 am - 9:00 pm
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