Lecture: On the Centenary of the Czernowitz Conference, 19 Oct 2008
Lecture in Yiddish with Prof. Eugene Orenstein "On the Centenary of the Czernowitz Conference"
Lecture in Yiddish with Prof. Eugene Orenstein "On the Centenary of the Czernowitz Conference" on Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. at the Jewish Public Library, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine Road, Montreal. Cost: $5 JPL members/students, $10 others. Refreshments served. For information call (514) 345-2627 ext. 3006 or advance tickets call (514) 345-6416. Sponsored by the Yentl Fishman Fund.
The Czernowitz Yiddish Language Conference in 1908 was the first international attempt to consolidate the achievements of Yiddish and to encourage its creative future. The meaning of this attempt will be analyzed through the prism of the past century.
Eugene Orenstein is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at McGill University and has also taught at Columbia University, NYU, Oxford, and Monash University in Melbourne. He has most recently contributed articles to The Encyclopedia Judaica, 2007.
The Jewish Public Library, founded in Montreal in 1914, is committed to encouraging and promoting the Yiddish language, culture and literature, by collecting and preserving Yiddish materials, and by presenting a variety of cultural events.