'Yiddish Voices': A Translation Series by YIVO and Bloomsbury

Name: 'Yiddish Voices': A Translation Series by YIVO and Bloomsbury
Start: 2025-12-02T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 15 W 16th St, New York, NY, United States, New York 10011

Schedule

Tue, 02 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

15 W 16th St, New York, NY, United States, New York 10011 | New York, NY

In person and on Zoom
Join us for the launch of the latest two volumes in the Yiddish Voices series, a partnership between YIVO and Bloomsbury. The first, The Destruction of Dubova: Chronicle of a Dead City, is a searing account of pogrom violence by the writer and documentarian Rokhl Faygnberg, and the second, The Mother of Yiddish Theatre: Memoirs of Ester-Rokhl Kaminska, is the memoir of the Yiddish actress and diva Ester-Rokhl Kaminska. Extraordinarily, both of these works were published exactly a century ago, in Warsaw in 1926. Both Kaminska and Faygnberg were exceptional as women cultural pioneers, and both were witness to the vitality and fragility of Ukrainian Jewish life and interwar Polish culture.
The event will explore these works through images, a conversation with Elissa Bemporad (editor, The Destruction of Dubova), Mikhl Yashinsky (translator and editor, The Mother of Yiddish Theatre), and historian Glenn Dynner (University of Virginia), and a live performance. Book signing and reception will follow.