International Visitors

1. Opening address (untitled)
2. Sholem Aleichem in a new light
3. Kiddush Hashem and Heroism in Jewish History and in Jewish Literature
4. The New Generation in the literature of Israel
5. Theatre and Cinema and the Man of today
6. Sholem Asch
7. The world of today and today’s world literature
8. Theatre in Israel – achievements and problems
9. I.L. Peretz
10. Warsaw, New York, Moscow – three literary centres

1. Facing Galuth
2. Israel – a religious or civil state
3. Jewish concerts in Israel

1. The Jew and the man of the world – yesterday and today
2. Literature and art in the world of today
3. Man and woman in the new light of our times
4. Silent song in the tumultuous world
5. The great literature of the little man – Chekhov and Sholem Aleichem
6. Ilya Ehrenburg – the most Jewish non-Jew of our times
7. Modern theatre
8. Jewish literature in the world and in Israel today
9. Messiah or Golem – who will bring salvation?
10. Man and society in the twentieth century
11. Eternal Jew – legend and reality

1. Jewish Life in Soviet Russia
2. My trip through the Arabic countries
3. The rising African continent

1. My life and my poem
2. My meetings with Shlomo Michoels in Moscow 1944-1946
3. Yiddish writer in Israel
4. Peretz Markish and his environment
5. From Vilna till Jerusalem
6. As a witness at the Nuremberg trial
7. The fate of the writer group “Young Vilna”
8. My talks with Ilya Ehrenburg and Boris Pasternak
9. At the Sinai mountain
10. The main characteristics of my poetry

1. From Moscow to Berlin
2. Jewish life in the world – impressions
3. My talk with 4 great Yiddish writers – Sholem Asch, David Pinski, Zalman Shneour, Joseph Opatoshu
4. From Plonsk to the Arab village Jasur
5. Among Jewish tribes in Israel
6. Soviet Jewish literature – its rise, fall and “resurrection”
7. Would Israel become the spiritual centre of the Jewish people?
8. People whom I met on my literary path

1. S. Michoels
2. The revolt of the Soviet youth after the Stalin epoch

1. The meaning of Judaism today
2. Literature and life
3. The Negro crisis in America
4. Jewish humour
5. Jewish religion-what makes it Jewish and Universal
6. Masterpieces of Jewish literature
7. Democracy and Dictatorship
8. Jewish life in the USA
9. Sholom Asch
10. Chassidism and Chassidic Motives in Jewish Literature
11. Tradition and secularism in Jewish life
12. Judaism and Christianity in connection with the Ecumenical Council
13. The meaning of life
14. The State of Israel and the Jewish people

1. The Jewish map in 1965
2. Soviet Russia and Soviet Jewry
3. Israel today – Dangers and prospects
4. Jewish life in North and South America
5. Cultural life in Israel

1. The melody of the Eastern European Jew
2. The Jew and the modern world
3. The urge to redemption in H. Leivick’s dramas
4. Jews in South Africa

1. Sholem Asch and Bashevis Singer
2. Theatre today
3. Pseudo art and Art
4. H. Leivick and his drama in the days of Job

Delivered a series of five lectures:

1. Why is Sholem Aleichem so popular?
2. Israel in Yiddish literature and Yiddish literature in Israel
3. Parents and children in Yiddish literature
4. Youth in Yiddish literature
5. State of Israel and the Jewish world

1. Social elements in Jewish humour
2. Isaac Bashevis Singer in the Jewish and World literature
3. The Negroes and Jews in America
4. Theatre of the Absurd
5. M. Nadir and Sholem Aleichem
6. The tales of Chelm

1. Aliya from Soviet Russia and the place of the Jewish writer in it
2. One hundred years of Yiddish literature
3. Socialism and reality in Israel
4. Hebrew and Yiddish literature in Israel
5. From nation back to tribes
6. The heritage of East European Jewry without an heir
7. Israel as a laboratory for culture and civilization

1. Jews in Mexico
2. The specific way of the Jewish people in World History
3. The demographic explosion in the world
4. Land and Nation
5. Jews in the World
6. Education and Culture
7. Jewish Folklore

1. Vilna-New York-Jerusalem
2. Three philosophies of Jewish life
3. Franz Kafka and H.D. Nomberg
4. Principles of Cultural Pluralism
5. Perspectives for Jewish Life in North America
6. The danger of extinction of Western Civilization
7. Role of organised communities in Jewish life
8. The quality of life and the socio-economic crisis of today
9. The tragedy of Moshe Kulbak
10. Dynamics of the Jewish Cultural life in Canada

Delivered a series of six lectures in 1978:

1. The decline of Western Civilization and the impact on World Jewry
2. The rainbow theory of Jewish survival
3. Secularity in modern Jewish life
4. J.J. Trunk and his epic on Polish Jewry
5. Is there a solution to the world crisis?
6. Ups and downs of creativity in modern Jewish life

1. Shloime Michoels – the man, Jew and artist
2. Our Sholem Aleichem (in concert)
3. Theatre miracles
4. Struggle, Heroism and Uprising (in concert)

1. Zing un lacht mit unz (Sing and laugh with us)
2. Zu Zingen un zu zogn (To sing and to say)

1. The National Freedom movement of Soviet Jewry
2. Yiddish literature after the October Revolution
3. With love from Israel
4. Poetry readings
5. Mass murder of Yiddish culture in Soviet Russia
6. The last encounter with the Jewish writers-martyrs
7. The absorption of Russian Jewish Writers in Israel

1. Yiddish life in Rumania
2. Jewish poetry from its oldest sources to the present day
3. 100^th birthday of Eliezer Steinberg
4. Curiosities in Yiddish Cultural Relations
5. Itzik Manger
6. Sholem Asch: The controversial writer
7. Bashevis Singer – The Nobel Prize Winner
8. Sh. Anski
9. Chaim Nachman Bialik – The bilingual poet
10. Jacob Gordin – The reformer of Yiddish theatre
11. I.L. Peretz
12. Abraham Goldfaden – The father of Yiddish theatre
13. Humour in Yiddish Folklore

1. Worldly and secular: one and the same?
2. Religious experiences in secular kibbutzim
3. Yiddish and modern Hebrew
4. The humour of Sholem Aleichem
5. Bashevis Singer – A Jewish writer or a writer amongst Jews?
6. Rashi for the secular Jew
7. Eretz Israel in the poems of Sutzkever and Grade
8. H. Leivick’s spiritual struggle
9. I.L. Peretz: Chassidism and Grade’s following
10. My 18 years in Israel

Delivered a series of four lectures in 1991:

1. Impressions of Moscow conference on Yiddish culture
2. The controversy surrounding Bashevis Singer
3. Two contradictory ideas in Judaism
4. Untitled

1. Jewish surnames of Eastern Europe, their origin and history in Yiddish
2. The 13^th tribe by Arthur Koestler and the problem of the origin of Eastern European Jews.
3. Jews and Tanach in Slavic Folklore and Literature
4. Repeat of lecture 1.
5. A new wave of anti-semitism in Russia and Eastern Europe
6. The influence of Yiddish on modern Hebrew
7. Untitled lecture
8. Immigration and absorption of Russian Jews

1. The Emmanuel Ringelblum archive
2. The Jewish Youth Movement and their attitudes to the Holocaust

1. Language as a way of life
2. The recent events in China
3. Yiddish at the universities
4. Don’t force me to tell you the endings
5. Bashevis Singer

1. The Jewish community in Argentina
2. The Jewish writer as mirrored by Yiddish literature
3. The soul of the Yiddish Folksong
4. “Bialik”
5. Sholem Aleichem through tears and laughter
6. The writer Avraham Reisen
7. The tragedy of Soviet Yiddish literature
8. The life and creations of Yosef Papiernikow
9. S. Anski from a Narodnik to Messenger

1. Today’s Israeli and American Yiddish Folklore
2. What makes Jewish Folklore Yiddish?
3. If there is a God cult in Judaism?
4. Jewish Folk Religion against the Roman influence
5. Jewish humour
6. Folklore on Chanukah
7. Folklore of the Jewish people
8. Folk element in the modern Jewish novel
9. Jews and Judaism in the creativity of modern Israeli writers and poets
10. The wives of Bobba Mayses: Female secrets passed on from one generation to the next

In 1994 lectured on “Lag B’Omer and Shavuout in Jewish Folklore”

1. The State of Israel and the Diaspora
2. Deliverance and Motif in Yiddish literature
3. YIVO from Vilna to New York
4. Parents and children in Yiddish literature
5. Yiddish writers between the shtetl and the big city
6. Women writers in Yiddish literature
7. Israel where old and modern cultures meet

1. Ehud H’am and Shimon Dubnov
2. The Roots of Modern Zionism
3. The comedy of Sholem Aleichem
4. Warsaw, Vilna and Odessa

Lectured in 2002 on S.H. Anski Folklorist, his contribution to Modern Jewish Culture