Events not hosted by LBI London, but which may be of interest.
The lecture explores the engagement of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German-Jewish authors, scholars, and intellectuals with their Yiddish literary heritage. Although Old Yiddish literature ceased to be published in the German territories already in the beginning of the nineteenth century, various texts of this early modern corpus gained a rich afterlife in modern German-Jewish culture, serving as the focus of lively discussions on a range of pertinent topics: tradition and secularization, acculturation and nostalgia, emancipation and antisemitism, gender relations, and religious…
