In celebration of Tu B’Shevat, join Rachel Simons, the founder of popular tahini outfit Seed+Mill in New York’s historic Chelsea Market, for a discussion of her new cookbook Sesame which celebrates the evolution, history, and diversity of this classic ingredient. Part of Jewish Literary Voices: A Federation Series in collaboration with The Jewish Book Council.
Diversity and Inclusion, Nature and Recreation, Online Event
Join Professor Sven-Erik Rose, author of Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos, for a conversation with Hannah Polin-Galay (Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies and director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at UMass Amherst) and David Mazower, the Yiddish Book Center’s research bibliographer and editorial director. […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Online Event
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College (OLLI at BCC) presents the next installment of its Distinguished Speakers Series. Speaker Javier Corrales’s talk, Tyrants, Smugglers, and Hostile Takeovers: U.S.-Venezuela Relations, will provide an informative update and on the intense political topic. The talk will be presented via Zoom.
Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event
The only thing better then reading a book on a winter’s eve is discussing the story with friends! Join The Mount online book club and explore the themes, characters, plot, and structure of three great stories, while enjoying the company of other people passionate about reading. The first group meeting is January 15 at 4 […]
Belong Berkshires, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event
Join Christa P. Whitney, director of the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, as she shares video highlights from the project’s growing collection. We’ll hear from actors who began their careers on the Eastern European stage, familiar faces from American screens who got their start in Yiddish theater, avid Yiddish theater-goers who share memories […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event
The only thing better then reading a book on a winter’s eve is discussing the story with friends! Join The Mount online book club and explore the themes, characters, plot, and structure of three great stories, while enjoying the company of other people passionate about reading. The first group meeting is January 15 at 4 […]
Belong Berkshires, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event