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A Discussion About Historian Heinrich Graetz

11/24/2015

Exekiel Lifschutz discusses the life and work of historian Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891).

YIVO Institute Mounts Exhibition on Jews and Entertainment in the Early 20th Century

11/18/2015

YIVO’s newest exhibition, Jewface: “Yiddish” Dialect Songs of Tin Pan Alley, looks at the ways in which early 20th century entertainment mocked Jews, engaged Jews, and developed Yiddish-accented English for comic effect.

Jews and Tsarist Military Service

11/18/2015

1839 document threatening those who harbored runaways from tsar’s army.

Shmuel Lapin on Yiddish

11/13/2015

Shmuel Lapin discusses Yiddish in contemporary life (1967).

Rare 16th-century Hebrew book digitized

11/5/2015

Rare 16th-century Hebrew book digitized by YIVO for the Vilna Collections Project.

Yiddish Names for Trees (1967)

10/28/2015

Mordkhe Schaechter on the names of trees in Yiddish (YIVO on WEVD, 1967).

2015 Karski & Nirenska Award Ceremony in Warsaw

10/22/2015

Jerzy Malinowski honored at Jewish Historical Institute.

Eminent Scholars Discuss the Future of American Jewry at Riverdale Temple

10/17/2015

As part of the YIVO Jewish Culture Series, Dr. Jonathan Brent, Executive Director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Dr. Steven M. Cohen, Research Professor of Jewish Social Policy, Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute for Religion, and Rabbi Thomas A. Gardner of Riverdale Temple, address widespread concerns about the state of American Jewry today.

I told them of the wonders of the Jerusalem of Lithuania

10/14/2015

“I told them of the wonders of the Jerusalem of Lithuania”: A 1938 Letter to Chaim Grade

World Premiere of No Asylum

10/14/2015

YIVO co-produces and premieres No Asylum, a documentary on Otto Frank’s efforts to save his family.