Research Seminars @ Illinois

Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.

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Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature

Feb 23, 2026   5:00 pm  
Illini Union Room 210
Lecture
Sponsor
The Program in Jewish Culture and Society
Contact
Samantha McLain
E-Mail
slangley@illinois.edu
Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

Around the turn of the twentieth century, a group of Yiddish-speaking educators, authors, and cultural leaders undertook a bold project: creating a corpus of nearly one thousand books and several periodicals, which flourished in conjunction with the secular Yiddish school systems that spanned the globe in the 1920s and 30s. Investigated as an archive, the corpus furnishes a novel record of the movements that made Ashkenazi Jewry fully modern.

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