News & Features

On September 19, 2019, YIVO Executive Director and CEO Jonathan Brent spoke at the exhibition opening of the The Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences’ newest exhibit, Documents of the YIVO Archive in The Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, The Life and Death of a Yiddish Puppet Theater, by Eddy Portnoy, YIVO’s Academic Advisor & Exhibitions Curator.

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

The recently appointed President of the Republic of Lithuania H.E. Gitanas Nausėda and First Lady Diana Nausėdienė visited the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York.

YIVO’s Academic Advisor & Exhibitions Curator Eddy Portnoy reflects on the inaugural Ukrainian Jewish Literary Tour.

YIVO’s Director of Foundations and Grants, Elina Bloch reflects on the 2019 Lithuania & Poland Study Tour.

Two hundred years ago, Jewish women had to struggle for the right to work as teachers (or even to obtain an education), as attested to by these notes for a study on the subject.

On Wednesday, July 31, 2019, YIVO presents a rehearsed reading of Leon Kobrin’s 1912 play Breach of Promise—a tragicomic slice of tenement life in New York City. 

YIVO’s first feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, Yiddish Wedding Hop: The Archives of Song Collector Ruth Rubin, by YIVO Sound Archivists Eléonore Biezunski and Lorin Sklamberg.

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