History is written by the powerful. But what happens when the powerless insist on preserving and analyzing their own experiences: sharing them in secret gatherings, publishing them in underground newspapers, and burying the archives in milk cans for survivors to read? What does it mean to write collective and creative chronicles in a language with no army or navy? What makes our stories into histories?
Yiddish Guerrilla Histories will dig up and translate a few of these defiant acts of memory from 1914 to 2022, including poems, songs, and sagas, and share them with a trustworthy audience.
Reading and presentation in English and (translated) Yiddish
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With special guests Sarah Silberstein Swartz and Zohar Weiman-Kelman, as well as Berlin’s own Guli Dolev-Hashiloni, Katerina Kuznetsova, Rose Mintzer-Sweeney, Ro van Wingerden, and Janina Wurbs
Featuring the Yiddish writings of Rokhl Oyerbakh, Anna Margolin, Malka Lee, Leyb Kvitko, and Irena Klepfisz, plus some music.
A project of Yiddish.Berlin, curated and presented by Jake Schneider
Free admission, donation to support the presenters encouraged
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