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YIVO Presents: A Very Jewish Christmas: Toledot Yeshu, A Jewish Anti-Gospel

12/1/2021

For the fourth year in a row, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will delve into how Jewish culture developed around Christmas.

The Yiddishists: Send a Postcard!

11/19/2021

See the eleventh article in the Jewish Renaissance column The Yiddishists, delving into the YIVO Archives.

The ‘Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska’ Award announced for 2021

10/26/2021

The Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Award Committee, comprised of Jonathan Brent (Executive Director of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research), Monika Krawczyk (director of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute), Ewa Geller, Tadeusz Epsztein and Andrzej Żbikowski, has awarded the prize for the year 2021 to Professor Jan Doktór.

Di Goldene Land: Yiddish Songs of the American Dream and a Bitter Reality

10/13/2021

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, Di Goldene Land: Yiddish Songs of the American Dream and a Bitter Reality, by Alex Weiser Director of Public Programs.

YIVO Premiering Two Online Concerts of Folksongs from the Early 1900s

10/4/2021

This fall, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will be premiering two Sidney Krum Young Artists Concerts featuring Hebrew and Yiddish folksongs from the 1920s and 1930s.

YIVO Presents: European Jews in the 21st Century

10/1/2021

YIVO presents a panel exploring the status of Jews in Europe in the 21st century.

YIVO Welcomes Two New Board Members

9/30/2021

YIVO is delighted to announce the addition of Warren Stern and Deborah Veach to its Board of Directors. These additions reflect the unprecedented growth YIVO has seen since the beginning of the pandemic.

Little-Known Work of Sholem Aleichem Translated into English for the First Time

9/27/2021

Join Curt Leviant, in conversation with Dvora Reich, about Sholem Aleichem and his newly re-discovered novel Moshkeleh Ganev.

YIVO Commemorates the Jewish Community of Vilna

8/31/2021

YIVO commemorates the Jewish community of Vilna – the birth place of YIVO – through poetry and song.

Jewish Children's Literature in Russian and Yiddish

8/27/2021

On June 22nd YIVO presented a Zoom webinar in collaboration with The Bodleian Library of Oxford to discuss Yiddish, Russian, and Hebrew children's literature, and to showcase some of the handsomely illustrated books in our respective collections.