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Announcing: The 2019 YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization, January 3-23, 2019

12/18/2018

Held annually in January since 2012, the YIVO-Bard Winter Program invites students to delve into Ashkenazi Jewish life and culture covering its thousand-year history in Eastern Europe and across the diaspora.

Ruth Rubin Legacy: An Online Sound Archive of Yiddish Folksongs

12/13/2018

YIVO’s newest online archive highlights the field recordings of over 1,900 Yiddish lider (songs) made by renowned vocalist and scholar, Ruth Rubin.

Fifty Years of Life in America

12/10/2018

The manuscript of the published memoirs of Yisroel Yekhiel Kopeloff, a Yiddish writer and activist.

French Bishops Delegation

11/30/2018

On November 27, 2018, YIVO hosted a delegation of 20 Clergymen and Academics traveling from France to New York to visit key Jewish Institutions in Manhattan. 

2018 Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska Award

11/27/2018

The Jury of the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Award is pleased to announce that Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota was named the recipient of the Karski Award for the year 2018.

Musical Settings of the Song of Songs

11/20/2018

Shir Hashirim, the Song of Songs, is an ecstatic, erotic book, found in the Hebrew Bible. It has been a source of inspiration for many composers throughout history from the Yiddish theater to the Society for Jewish Folk Music, and beyond.

Irene Kronhill Pletka, YIVO Honoree, Announces $1 Million Gift at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Gala

11/15/2018

Irene Kronhill Pletka, Vice Chairman of the YIVO Board, was honored at the 2018 Gala and pledged a $1 million gift to kick start support for the Bund Digitization Project.

Rare Typescript by Martin Buber

10/18/2018

A short German typescript by Martin Buber, signed, with handwritten corrections.

Sessions with Accessions: The Konstam/Brotter Family Papers

10/17/2018

Tracing a woman’s transnational educational path in the twentieth century through materials donated to the YIVO Archives.

YIVO Explores the History of Polish-Jewish Relations with Key Figures in the Field

9/27/2018

New York, NY – This fall, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will explore the complicated history of Polish-Jewish relations. It will partner with Fordham University and Columbia University for the “In Dialogue: Polish-Jewish Relations” series, and will present Dariusz Stola, the director of POLIN Museum. This year, tensions between the ...