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Live concert of "Songs from Testimonies" featuring Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sasha Lurje

Marking the forty-fifth anniversary of the first videotaping of survivor testimony on video by the Holocaust Survivors Film Project, In the First Person is the first large-scale public exhibition of footage from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. In conjunction with this exhibit, the Fortunoff Archive is presenting a concert of its Songs from Testimonies project, featuring Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sasha Lurje.

Windham-Campbell Prizes Festival

The 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize recipients will be in residence on Yale’s campus from September 16-19 for a multi-day international literary festival during which they will share their work, engage in conversation on a range of subjects, and celebrate reading and the written word with the New Haven community. All events are free and open to the public.

The full schedule of talks, discussions, and readings will be available at windhamcampbell.org in mid-August 2025.

Mondays at Beinecke: Revisiting Jethro Luke, James Pierpont, and their Legacies with Hope McGrath and Michael Morand

Jethro Luke was a key builder of Yale in the 18th century, along with others in his family – though his role and that of other enslaved and free Black people here has only been recognized in recent years.

Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/4elLf3B

Mondays at Beinecke: Trauma, Testimony, and Time: Memories of the Warsaw Ghetto with Avinoam Patt

A talk in conjunction with the exhibition ““In the First Person,” marking the forty-fifth anniversary of the first videotaping by the Holocaust Survivors Film Project, a grassroots New Haven community initiative that evolved into the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.

Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/48zm7Fx

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