Yiddish has been the language of Ashkenazi Jews for over a thousand years. It was used by writers and artists to create great works of fiction, plays, and music. Yiddish words are everywhere in popular culture and it would be meshuggenah to imagine that anyone hasn’t heard or said at least one Yiddish word. Yiddish is a living language, full of spiel and shtick, irony and humor, expressing all of the subtle distinctions of human character. This is at the heart of one of FJMC’s most popular programs, “Yiddish Alive!“, an interactive, Zoom based discussion about everything Yiddish.
Please tune in on Monday evening March 3, 2025 at 8pm ET when the “Yiddish Alive!” Affinity Group present a special webinar, “Jews of the South During the Civil War” featuring Dr. Gary Phillip Zola, Executive Director Emeritus of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA). Register for this FREE webinar at: https://fjmc.org/events-2/yiddish-alive-zola/.
Dr. Gary Phillip Zola served as the executive director of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA) from 1998 through June of 2023. Currently, Dr. Zola maintains his faculty status as the Edward M. Ackerman Family Distinguished Professor of the American Jewish Experience & Reform Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR). Professor Zola is also known as a historian of American Jewry who specializes in 19th-century American Judaism and the history of American Reform Judaism. Since 1998, Zola has been the editor of The Marcus Center’s award-winning biannual publication, The American Jewish Archives Journal. His book-length volumes include An Equal Share of Freedom: American Jews, Zionism, and World War I (co-edited with Mark A. Raider and Zohar Segev), New Perspectives in American Jewish History (co-edited with Mark A. Raider), We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, American Jewish History: A Primary Source Reader (co-edited by Marc Dollinger), The Americanization of the Jewish Prayer Book and The Liturgical Development of Congregation Ahawath Chesed, New York City, A Place of Our Own: The Rise of Reform Jewish Camping in America (co-edited with Michael M. Lorge), The Dynamics of American Jewish History: Jacob Rader Marcus’s Essays on American Jewry, Women Rabbis: Exploration and Celebration, and Isaac Harby of Charleston, a major biographical study on the life of one of the founders of the first organized effort to reform Judaism in the United States. Dr. Zola has been honored with national appointments, including being selected by President Biden in 2023 as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Notably, in April 2011, President Obama appointed Dr. Zola to the Commission for the Preservation of American Heritage Abroad, marking a historic moment as the first faculty member of Hebrew Union College to receive such recognition from a U.S. president. Further, in 2006, Dr. Zola achieved groundbreaking milestones by becoming the inaugural American Jewish historian and the first American rabbi appointed to the Academic Advisory Council of the congressionally recognized Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.
Yiddish Alive is part of a growing list of FJMC Affinity Groups and is offered at no charge to Men’s Clubs and Brotherhoods across the United States and around the world. Learn more at: https://fjmc.org/initiatives/affinity-groups-webinars/yiddish-alive-affinity-group/ or email Mike Mills at MillsMS1@Gmail.com. Nu? Sign up to join Yiddish Alive today and be mensch tomorrow.
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