Upcoming events 2023
Thur, May 18, Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour: a conversation with author. West Nyack and Northern New Jersey, details tba
Wed, March 29, Chilton Club, Boston, book talk
Tue, March 21, Congregation Kehillath Israel, conversation with author and presentation of Felix Lembersky’s art
Wed, March 15, 12:00ET, online, the Art of Felix Lembersky. Presentation by Yelena Lembersky and Ori Z Soltes, Fritz Asher Society, Link to event
Tue, Feb 28, 7-8:30, Pushkin House, London, UK, book talk and slide-show of Felix Lembersky’s art. To register
Wed, Feb 8, 6:-7:30, The Art of Felix Lembersky: Presentation and conversation with Yelena Lembersky, Watson Hall 517, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada. Link to event
Tue, Feb 7, 4-5:30, Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour: a conversation with author, Watson 217, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada. Link to event
Past events 2022
Tue, Nov 15, 11:00 am: Jewish Woman’s Club, Weinstein Jewish Community Center, location off site
Sun, Nov 13, 10:00 am: United Jewish Federation of Stamford, CT
Fri, Nov 4, 2022, 10:30: Bender Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, DC, Rockville, MD
Tue, Nov 1, 12:30-1:45 pm: The Destruction of Jewish Art in the USSR during Stalin Terror and Holocaust, Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, CGIS South, S354, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA. Link to the event
Fri, Oct 28, 6:20 pm: Beth Israel Congregation, Ann Arbor, MI
Thur, Oct 27, 2:30-4 pm: The University of Michigan: Children under Fire, LSA course, Ann Arbor, MI
Sun, Oct 23, 10:00 am: Jewish Book Festival, Ontario, CA. Link to the event
Wed, Oct 12, 12-1:30PM: Tufts University, Hillel, 220 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA
Fri, Sept 30, 3 pm: Youville Place, Lexington, MA
PAST EVENTS
Saturday, September 10, LitBalm reading series with Anjali Mitter Duva, Susan Blumberg-Kason, Whitney Sharer, and hosts Mark Vincenz, Cassandra Atherton, and Jonathan Penton.
Thursday, August 11, 2022, 5:00-7:00pm: Brewster Bookstore, 2648 Main St, Brewster, Cape Cod, MA, in-person
Friday, July 15, 2022, 3:00-4:00, in person: Youville House, Cambridge, MA. Sacred Image in Hiding
Sunday, June 26, 7:30 pm: Schmooze and Learn – Jewish and Ukrainian Avant-Garde of the 1920s, it’s destruction, and rebirth: Felix Lembersky’s Art
Wednesday, June 22, 2022: NPR Here & Now: Robin Young speaks with Yelena Lembersky and Oleksandra Kovalchuk, director of Odessa Museum of Art, about art as memory, Felix Lembersky, including his Babyn Yar paintings, and saving art during Putin’s war in Ukraine. LISTEN TO PODCAST
Thursday, June 9, 2022: RADIO BOSTON: TIZIANA DEARING INTERVIEWS YELENA LEMBERSKY, LISTEN TO PODCAST
Saturday, June 11, 2022, 1:30-2:00 EDT, ONLINE: The Visual Culture of Iconoclasm and Atheism, Academic conference, Session II Subversive Icons. Sacred Symbols in Hiding: Felix Lembersky’s Paintings. TO REGISTER
June 8, 2022, ONLINE: Holocaust in Art before 1989, Academic Conference. Babyn Yar paintings and Holocaust Symbols in the art of Felix Lembersky. TO REGISTER
June 2, 2022, ONLINE: Book talk with Joyce Linehan
May 23, 2022, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, HERE & NOW: Robin Young speaks with Galina and Yelena Lembersky about their memoir and the art of Galina’s father, Felix Lembersky. PODCAST ,
May 18, 2022, ACADEMIC STUDIES PRESS ONLINE: Yelena Lembersky and Elena Gorokhova, author of A Train to Moscow discuss their work and Russia’s war in Ukraine. YOUTUBE
April 26, 2022, 7:00 IN PERSON, PORTER SQUARE BOOKSTORE, Cambridge, MA: Yelena Lembersky and Weina Dai Randel, author of The Last Rose of Shanghai, present their new books.
April 6, 2022, 7:30 EDT, ACADEMIC STUDIES PRESS ONLINE: Yelena Lembersky and Sophia Shalmiyev, author of Mother Winter, spoke with Helen Fremont, author of The Escape Artist, about their memoirs and childhood in Soviet Russia. YOUTUBE
February 22, 2022, TEMPLE SHALOM, Medford, MA: “Growing up behind Iron Curtain”, presenting Yelena Lembersky, Michael Tolstorukov, and Jakub and Lusia Pogoda.
March 24, 2022, THE HARVARD COOP, Cambridge, MA: Yelena Lembersky speaks about her memoir and the Putin’s War in Ukraine.
January 20, 2022, ONLINE: “The Zeitgeist” with Jane Roper on A Mighty Blaze. YOUTUBE
January 13, 2022, ONLINE, ARLINGTON AUTHOR SALON: “Life, Art, and Family in History’s Shadow”, authors Helen Fremont, Yelena Lembersky, and Weina Dai Randel. YOUTUBE