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November 23: Opening of the exhibition mili | Milly | מילי
arnt bek | ARNDT BECK | אַרנט בעק mili | Milly | מילי COLLECTIVE ARTISTIC RESEARCH With this collective artistic research project initiated by Arndt Beck, YIDDISH.BERLIN is honoring an extraordinary figure: the feminist and anarchist activist Milly Witkop (1877–1955). In the spring, Beck began tracing Milly’s footsteps in Yiddish archives and reading what they …
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30 November: Book presentation: Rudolf Rocker, In the Storm of Time —The London Years
Following The Youth of a Rebel, Rudolf Rocker’s earliest memories, comes the second volume about his years in London, his acquaintance with Milly Witkop, and their joint activities surrounding the Yiddish anarchist newspaper Arbeter Fraynd. In their introduction, editors Klaus Decker and Tilman Leder focus on the chapters about Milly and give us insights into …
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27 November: Yiddish Women: An Evening with Malka Lee
Join us for an evening dedicated to Yiddish poet Malka Lee (1904—1976), one of the most distinctive voices of Yiddish modernism. Contemporary Yiddish poets Katerina Kuznetsova and Yael Merlini will introduce Malka Lee’s remarkable life story — from her beginnings in a Ukrainian shtetl to her creative years in New York — and trace the …
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25 November: Between the Syndicalist Women’s Union and humanitarian aid: Milly Witkop-Rocker in Berlin, 1919–1933
In 1920s Berlin, Milly Witkop and Rudolf Rocker were at the center of many strands of the international and German anarcho-syndicalist movement. They were closely associated with Emma Goldman, Zenzl and Erich Mühsam. Milly was very involved in the Syndicalist Women’s League, whose inner-city Berlin group she led for a time. From 1926 onwards, she …
- 30 November: Book presentation: Rudolf Rocker, In the Storm of Time —The London Years
- 27 November: Yiddish Women: An Evening with Malka Lee
- 25 November: Between the Syndicalist Women’s Union and humanitarian aid: Milly Witkop-Rocker in Berlin, 1919–1933
- November 23: Opening of the exhibition mili | Milly | מילי
- 13 February – a libebriv: A Yiddish Valentine’s Day Poetry Reading