Limmudfest 2020

Beginning around 1905, a new type of young Jewish immigrant began to arrive in Southern cities—men and women with secular outlooks, a passion for Yiddish literature and culture, and (often) radical politics. In Atlanta, Galveston, Dallas, and other cities, they started lending libraries, dramatic groups, and choirs, often affiliated with local branches of the Arbeter Ring (Workmen's Circle). This session focuses on these cultural and educational undertakings to reimagine the early-twentieth-century Jewish South as a site of vibrant Yiddish cultural activity, rather than a place of assimilation and forgetting.

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