100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research with Stefanie Halpern
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Book Talk
Presented by the Yiddish Book Center Admission: Free Registration is required. |
A pair of ruby red slippers. A medieval manuscript. A Yiddish folk medicine prescription. These are just a few of the objects featured in YIVO’s centennial coffee-table book, 100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, which chronicles modern Jewish history through one hundred objects from the YIVO Archives and Library. Join Stefanie Halpern, the book’s editor and YIVO’s director of collections, for a discussion highlighting how the book traces YIVO’s role in documenting key moments in modern Jewish history and culture through its hundred years of collecting.
About the Speaker
Stefanie Halpern is director of collections at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Jewish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary and a Masters in archival studies from Clayton State University. Halpern has published on archival theory and practice, Yiddish theater, and Jewish performance and was the assistant curator of the MCNY exhibition From the Bowery to Broadway: New York’s Yiddish Theater.