For the Love of Animals brings to life captivating animal stories that shed light on the Jewish soul – in ways everyone will resonate with. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email two days before the program containing information about joining the meeting.
Online Event, Performing Arts & Entertainment
In our 2nd history talk of the 2025 season we take a look at the history of masonry work in New England. From foundations to fence posts; millstones to gravestones, the work of the Early American mason is still evident around us to this day. Come see examples of these works and learn about the […]
History and Heritage, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event
For the Museum’s final history talk lecture of the 2025 season we will discuss a little known battle of the mid-18th C. In 1745, New England colonists launched a successful expedition to conquer Louisbourg, a port in present-day Nova Scotia, which was then controlled by the French Empire. Reverend Adonijah Bidwell was witness to this battle […]
Berkshire250, History and Heritage, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event
Author Henry H. Sapoznik’s The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City offers a fresh perspective on more than a century of New York’s Yiddish popular culture. Henry, a Peabody Award–winning coproducer of NPR’s Yiddish Radio Project, will guide us through his exploration of theater, music, architecture, crime, Blacks-Jews relations, restaurants, real estate, and journalism. Drawing from […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event
Childhood friends in Poland, Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson lived through the Lodz Ghetto and the death camps together, parting soon after their liberation from Bergen-Belsen. For the next fifty years, Rosenfarb and Larsson continued their friendship through letters as both went on to become distinguished novelists in their respective languages, Yiddish and Swedish. Letters from […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event
Louis Graveraet Kaufman - The Fabulaous Michigan Jewish Gatsby, with biographer Ann Berman via Zoom. The life and legacy of Louis Graveraet Kaufman (1870–1942), a half Jewish, part Indigenous man from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan who lived a wild Jazz Age life, built one of the country’s largest banks, built a 26,000 square-foot log […]
Diversity and Inclusion, History and Heritage, Online Event
In her book Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891–1941 author Sarah Ellen Zarrow illuminates the lives and work of Polish Jewish collectors and museologists who sought to preserve the treasures of the Jewish past while demonstrating Jewish belonging on Polish soil. Her talk will offer a nuanced understanding of the multiplicity of ways in which […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event
Celebrate the launch of a new translation of Jonas Kreppel’s Adventures of Max Spitzkopf, the complete series of 15 mysteries starring the Viennese “king of detectives,” Max Spitzkopf. Translator Mikhl Yashinsky will share insights into the origins of these stories, how they captivated readers and achieved pulp fiction status, and why they were beloved by figures such as […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event
Girls on Adventures, Dogs on Strikes: Why Yiddish Children's Literature Matters Today with Miriam Udel is an online course that explores the vibrant world of Yiddish children’s literature, from boys and girls who defy expectations to chickens learning Yiddish and a democracy-loving mutt. Across nearly a thousand books published on four continents in the 20th […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event
Berlin in the early ‘30s was second only to Paris as the undisputed capital of the European fashion world, run by Jews and recognized the world over as a major center for style. But Hitler had different ideas. Join Dr. Linda Burghardt, Scholar-in-Residence at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center in New York, to explore how […]
History and Heritage, Online Event