Documentary Screening of Odesa’s Forgotten Language: Yiddish

Sunday, February 19, 2023

3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Stokes Hall STO 131 Stokes Auditorium

02/19/2023 03:00 PM America/New_York Documentary Screening of Odesa’s Forgotten Language: Yiddish Stokes Hall

This event occurred Sunday, February 19, 2023 and is provided for archive purposes. Content and links may have changed.

Contact

Jeff Tecosky-Feldman

jtecosky@haverford.edu

Type

Film

Audience

General Public

Event Calendar

**Program Change** The February 19th originally-scheduled lecture by Prof. Orenstein about the Yiddish poetry of Yude-Leyb Teller has had to be rescheduled. In its place, we will be showing a new documentary about the history of Yiddish in Ukraine.

Odesa’s Forgotten Language: Yiddish

This fascinating 2022 documentary film takes us through the colorful history, both heroic and tragic, of Odesa (Odessa), the "most Jewish" city of Ukraine. Narrated mainly in Russian, with English subtitles, the film was produced by the International Yiddish Center, an organization set up in Vilnius by the World Jewish Congress to preserve and promote the heritage and knowledge of Yiddish.

Odesa-born actor, poet and personality Yitzhak Averbukh traces the history of the Jews of Odesa, and the city’s transformation into a world center of Jewish culture in all its genres. Odesa played a vital role in the history of Jewish literature, education, press and theater. Yiddish was at the heart, becoming a foundation of the so-called "Odesa language” and making Odesa a world capital of Jewish humor. The film runs just under one hour, leaving us time for a discussion afterward. . More info at www.haverford.edu/ycf .

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