# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Visions of the Jewish Future in Eastern Europe: Education, Language, and Identity
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 17 May, 2026 at 03:00 pm (+00:00)
- **Event Description**: This is a live, online course held weekly on Zoom. Students will receive a Zoom link after registering for the course here on the YIVO website. This course will be conducted in English.

How did Jewish communities in Eastern Europe imagine their future? One of the most important arenas for these debates was education. This mini-course invites participants to explore the rich and sometimes competing educational worlds available to Jews in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

We will look at a wide range of schools, from Zionist Hebrew schools and secular Yiddish schools in interwar Poland to state schools attended by Jewish children from the nineteenth century to 1939. Through these examples, the course shows how schooling shaped everyday life, cultural belonging, and ideas of Jewish identity. Who founded these schools? What values did they promote? And how did students experience them?

Special attention will be given to questions of language and gender. The course explores why Jewish boys and girls often attended different kinds of schools, and how Orthodox education, Hebrew education, and professional training opened (or limited) possibilities for Jewish women. Together, these stories reveal how education became a key tool for imagining different Jewish futures.

The mini-course is organized by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. The course accompanies the new temporary exhibition at the POLIN Museum “The Power of Words. On Jewish Languages,” which explores how Jewish languages developed across centuries and regions and shaped the cultural, religious, and social identity of Jewish communities living in diaspora.

Schedule

SESSION 1:
May 17, 2026 | 11:00am – 12:00pm ET
Gender and Jewish Education in Modern Eastern Europe

Instructor: Aleksandra Jakubczak

SESSION 2:
May 24, 2026 | 11:00am – 12:00pm ET 
Hebrew Schools in Pre-War Poland

Instructor: Kamil Kijek

SESSION 3:
May 31, 2026 | 11:00am – 12:00pm ET
New Yiddish Schools

Instructor: Anna Szyba

SESSION 4:
June 7, 2026 | 11:00am – 12:00pm ET
Jews in Polish Public Schools

Instructor: Alicja Maślak-Maciejewska

This course is organized within the Global Education Outreach program, supported by Taube Philanthropies, the William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation, and the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york-new-york/visions-of-the-jewish-future-in-eastern-europe-education-language-and-identity/200029877965940
- **Event Categories**: workshops, exhibitions, virtual
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 44

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: New York, New York
- **location**: Online event
- **full address**: Online event, 15 W 16th St, New York, NY 10011-6301, United States, New York, New York

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Visions of the Jewish Future in Eastern Europe: Education, Language, and Identity being held?
  - **A:** Visions of the Jewish Future in Eastern Europe: Education, Language, and Identity takes place on Sun, 17 May, 2026 at 03:00 pm to Sun, 17 May, 2026 at 03:00 pm at Online event, 15 W 16th St, New York, NY 10011-6301, United States, New York, New York.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Visions of the Jewish Future in Eastern Europe: Education, Language, and Identity?
  - **A:** Visions of the Jewish Future in Eastern Europe: Education, Language, and Identity is organized by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

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