18 April 2025

Poetry from Vilna and Beyond: A Reading and Discussion of Twentieth Century Yiddish Poetry on YIVO’s 100th Anniversary

Tuesday evening, 29 April at 6 PM, the Vilnius Jewish Public Library invites you to a special literary evening: “Poetry from Vilna and Beyond on YIVO’s 100th Anniversary: A Reading and Discussion of Twentieth Century Yiddish Poetry.” The event will take place at the Vilnius Jewish Public Library (Gedimino pr. 24). Entrance is through the courtyard of the Vilnius State Small Theatre.

The event will be held in English.

In this event, we will read and discuss a curated selection of twentieth-century Yiddish poems from across the world — beginning with Vilna’s own Avrom Sutzkever, and including works by Gabriel Preil, Yisroel Shtern, Jacob Glatstein, Anna Margolin, Rokhl Korn, Peretz Markish, and others.

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of YIVO – the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut – which was founded in Vilnius in 1925, the Vilnius Jewish Public Library invites you to a special literary event exploring the richness and depth of twentieth-century Yiddish poetry.

Jacqueline Osherow is the author of nine collections of poetry, most recently Divine Ratios Temple (LSU Press, 2023). She’s received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Ingram Merrill Foundations, the NEA and the Witter Bynner Prize, among others. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, journals and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Paris Review, APR, Best American Poetry (1995, 1998, 2018, 2024) The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, The Norton Anthology of Jewish-American Literature, A Centenary of Poetry in the New Yorker. She’s Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah.

The organizers may be taking photographs and videotaping the event as part of the Vilnius Jewish Public Library's historical record of its programs over the years.

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Briefly about the event

Date

29 April

Time

18:00

Place

Vilnius Jewish Public Library (Gedimino ave. 24)

Duration

2 val.

Attendance

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Organiser

Vilnius Jewish Public Library

Important

the event may be photographed and / or filmed
the event will be held in English