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A woman in a shtetl in Grodno sings an anti-tsarist song for a researcher.

This early 19th-century Yiddish book gives first aid instructions for how to treat victims of life-threatening accidents.

Edward Blank, retired New York telemarketing pioneer, has made a leadership gift to name the YIVO Vilna Collections the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections.

An anthology of avant garde poems by Melech Ravitch from the shelves of a library in Vilna.

Thanks to our incredible donors, YIVO has been able to accomplish many great things this year. Here are some of our favorites.

Outside media articles from 2017 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

A live recording of a lecture on the Yiddish press delivered at YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.

Paul Alan Levi is a Jewish American composer (b. 1941) who grew up in Inwood, New York City, which at the time was largely comprised of German Jews and Irish Catholics.

If you google the Jewish festival of lights Ḥanukkah, you’ll find descriptions of it which include more than a half dozen different spellings of the word. Why would such a common word have so many spellings, and which one is correct? 

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will be hosting a panel discussion about the impact of recent political events in the United States and the question of how organizations and individuals respond to the emergence of authoritarianism.