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A scholar uses the history of Jewish conversions to Catholicism  to shed light on ethnic identity in Lithuania before the Holocaust.

A chronicle of Jewish persecutions in Spain translated into Yiddish.

Throughout her studies and developing musical style, Julie Hill has always retained a strong tie to her background of singing and songwriting.

Adam Roberts is a composer of contemporary classical music who embraces influences as disparate as European Modernism, American Neo-Romanticism and Minimalism.

The blood libel accusation of Jews committing ritual murder has been the basis for some of the most hateful examples of organized antisemitism around the world since its fabrication in the Middle Ages. This conference will explore the impact of the blood libel over the centuries in a wide variety of geographic regions with a focus on how cultural memory was created, elaborated, and transmitted.

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

Rediscovery of the actor’s Yiddish memoir in the Vilna Collections.

A battle for the soul of Yiddish pits two scholars against one another.

An early 19th-century Yiddish book of jokes.

Excerpts from YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.