Yiddish in Public Space: The Art of Language

International Symposium

The Rena Costa Center for Yiddish Studies, Bar Ilan University

The Center for Jewish Art, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem

April 21, 2025, Bar Ilan University

Recorded Talks with Links

	Welcome Address: Prof. Michael Avioz, Dean, Faculty of Jewish Studies
	Welcome Address: Prof. Vered Tohar, Head, Department of Literature of the Jewish People
	Welcome Address: Prof. Ber Kotlerman, Head, The Rena Costa Center for Yiddish Studies
	Opening Remarks: Dr. Vladimir Levin, Yiddish in Public Space
	Teresa Smiechowska, What Does the Photo “Say”? Visualizing Yiddish on the Territories of Yiddish-speaking Diasporas
	Michael Lukin, Yiddish on Record Labels in Israel: The First Decade of the Jewish State
	Ira Rezak, Insignia of Yiddish Culture
	Arkadi Zeltser, Yiddish in the Holocaust Monuments in the USSR
	Sarit Cofman-Simhon, TES and the Art of Language (1950-1963): Yiddish Theatre in Iaṣi, Romania
	David G. Roskies, On the Reterritorialization of Yiddish in the Nazi Ghettos
	Valery Dymshits, Wall Newspapers and Posters in the Soviet Jewish Primary and Secondary Schools
	Anne Klotz, Yiddish: A Language of Resistance?
	Shabi Fiumei, Street Name Signs in Yiddish as Intervention Art
	Eugeny Kotlyar, Marked World: Visual Contemplating of Former Yiddishland
	Natalia Ivashkevich, Insights from Kazimierz in Kraków, Poland
	Piotr Nazaruk, The "Grodzka Gate - NN Theatre" Centre, Lublin
	Closing Remarks: Prof. Ber Kotlerman, The Status of Yiddish in Europe Today