Join IIJS and the Yiddish Studies Program at the Germanic Languages Department for a special screening of the opera, The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language, on Thursday, March 5, at 6:00 p.m. ET, at 617 Kent Hall. Composer Alex Weiser and librettist Ben Kaplan will share an excerpt from the ambitious new opera, followed by a discussion on The Great Yiddish Dictionary and writing a 21st-century opera on Yiddish.

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