SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 | 6:00pm
No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of
Anne Frank’s Story
» WORLD PREMIERE FILM & DISCUSSION | No Asylum, a film informed by YIVO’s “Otto Frank File,” reveals the story of the Frank family as they sought American asylum during World War II.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13 | 6:30pm
IDA: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary
of Nostra Aetate
» FILM & DISCUSSION | Presented by YIVO, Center for Jewish History, and Fordham University.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 | 6:30pm
Lawrence H. Summers on Academic
Freedom and Anti-Semitism
» LECTURE | Former Treasury Secretary and President Emeritus of Harvard University Lawrence H. Summers analyzes the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement and its impact on academic freedom.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 | 7:00pm
A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet:
My Grandfather and the SS,
My Jewish Family, A Search for
the Truth
» RUTH GAY SEMINAR IN JEWISH STUDIES | Author Rita Gabis reads from her new memoir and discusses her discovery of her bewildering family heritage: part Jewish, part Lithuanian resistance, part Gestapo.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 | 10:00am - 6:00pm
Roman Vishniac Rediscovered
» SYMPOSIUM | Presented in partnership with the International Center of Photography and co-sponsored by YIVO, the American Jewish Historical Society, Center for Jewish History, and Leo Baeck Institute.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27 | 3:00pm
The Great Terror in the USSR (1937-1938) and the Destruction of the Agro-Joint Program
» LECTURE | Joint Distribution Committee archivist Misha Mitsel shares his discovery of the stories of 200 Agro-Joint employees targeted by Stalin’s Great Purge. Co-sponsored by The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives.