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The First Yiddish Opera

7/5/2023

Neil W. Levin, YIVO's Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music, explores the first Yiddish opera, King Ahaz (Melekh Akhaz), composed in 1911 by Samuel Alman.

YIVO Brings Yiddish to the 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival

6/28/2023

YIVO is participating in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which will take place June 29-July 4 and July 6-9, 2023 at the National Mall in Washington, DC.

A Song Still Vital: Preserving and Reviving Yiddish Folk Music

6/22/2023

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, A Song Still Vital: Preserving and Reviving Yiddish Folk Music, by Alex Weiser, Director of Public Programs.

YIVO Mourns the Passing of Chava Lapin

6/22/2023

The Board of Directors and staff of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research express our deep sorrow at the passing of our dear colleague Chava Lapin z”l.

YIVO's Jonathan Brent Speaks at International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's Working Group Panel

6/13/2023

On June 12, 2023, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Executive Director and CEO Jonathan Brent participated in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) first plenary of the year.

YIVO Announces 2023 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series

6/8/2023

Returning for its fifth year, YIVO’s Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series introduces audiences to the breadth and depth of Yiddish civilization in Eastern Europe, New York, and around the world.

The Yiddishists: Matzah Bakers of the World, Unite!

5/15/2023

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

YIVO Appoints David Braun as Its Academic Advisor in Yiddish Language, Pedagogy, and Linguistics

5/2/2023

YIVO is delighted to announce that David Braun has been named by the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies as the Academic Advisor in Yiddish Language, Pedagogy, and Linguistics.

2023-2024 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows

4/24/2023

List of recipients of YIVO’s 2023-2024 faculty and graduate student fellowships.

80th Anniversary of the Start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

4/19/2023

Eighty years have passed since the day beleaguered, starving, desperate, isolated, and doomed Jewish inmates in the hell of the Warsaw Ghetto chose to fight their German oppressors.