The Latest Updates from YIVO
8.6.21
Landsmanshaftn Collections to be More Accessible through Grant from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research was awarded the John Stedman Memorial Grant for its Landsmanshaftn Collection Portal Project. The grant will support work to increase online access to YIVO’s lansdmanshaftn collections.
7.29.21
After a Year of Pandemic, Online Yiddish Learning is Here to Stay
On July 30, 2021, nearly 100 students will graduate from The Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture. In response to the global pandemic, the program has run online these past two summers and seen its largest enrollments in its over 50-year history.
7.27.21
The New Jewish School and Its Role in Educating a New Generation of Jews in Poland with Anna Szyba
Anna Szyba explores what was so special about Poland's Central Jewish School Organization (TSYSHO) schools and what impact they had on their students. Delivered in Yiddish.
7.26.21
Standardization in Contemporary Yiddish: Case studies from Hasidic Jews & Yiddishists with Isaac Bleaman
Isaac Bleaman explores standardization in contemporary Yiddish, through two case studies in quantitative (variationist) sociolinguistics. Part of the 2021 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series. Delivered in Yiddish.
7.22.21
"My Heart is in the East" - How Yiddish Speakers Moved to the East with Shaul Stampfer
Shaul Stampfer explores the origins of the Yiddish-speaking Jewish population of Eastern Europe. Part of the 2021 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series.
Women Writers in Yiddish Literature with Anita Norich and Karolina Szymaniak
Scholars Anita Norich and Karolina Szymaniak will discuss works by women Yiddish writers and their reception. Part of the 2021 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series. Delivered in Yiddish.
7.19.21
Yiddish Women Writers (Part 2) with Avraham Novershtern
Avraham Novershtern continues looking at how Yiddish women poets struggled, whether openly or tacitly, with the expectation that their work be 'soft' and ‘intimate', dealing with love and, to a certain extent, with sex. Part of the 2021 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series. Delivered in Yiddish.
7.15.21
Yiddish & Zionism with Rachel Rojanski
Rachel Rojanski examines the dialectical tensions between the Hebrew ideology of Zionism and the reality that forced it to play a significant role in the development of Yiddish culture. Part of the 2021 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series.
7.12.21
Yiddish Women Writers (Part 1) with Avraham Novershtern
Avraham Novershtern looks at how Yiddish women poets struggled, whether openly or tacitly, with the expectation that their work be 'soft' and ‘intimate', dealing with love and, to a certain extent, with sex. Part of the 2021 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series. Delivered in Yiddish.
7.8.21
Yiddish Ethnography and An-ski with Gabriella Safran
Gabriella Safran explores the connections between Sh. An-ski’s ethnographic work, his play, and the Russian politics of his era. Part of the 2021 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series.
7.7.21
Featured Artifact: Zygmunt Turkow (1896-1970)
The Yiddish actor and director Zygmunt Turkow was born and raised in Warsaw, where he got his start on the stage and went on to co-found—in partnership with his wife at the time, actress Ida Kaminska—the influential dramatic troupe “Varshever Yidisher Kunst-Theater” (Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater; circa 1924-1928).
Featured Artifact: Elias Tcherikower (1881-1943)
Elias Tcherikower was a founding member of YIVO in Vilna, a member of its Executive Committee, and Chairman of YIVO’s Historical Section from 1925-1940 as well as a historian and political activist.
What I Learned as a Research Fellow on the Project
Kronhill Pletka YIVO Research Fellow Ruby Landau-Pincus discusses her work on the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project.
7.1.21
The Yiddish Folksong: A Survey with Mark Slobin
Mark Slobin situates the “Yiddish folksong” in the context of the general European folksong world as well as the world of the performed expressive culture of ‘Yiddishland’, from prayer through popular song. Part of the 2021 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series.
6.28.21
The Ashkenazi Jews of Mexico with Adina Cimet
Adina Cimet discusses the birth of the Jewish Ashkenazi community in Mexico in the 20th century; the community’s structural development and expansion; and the ideological variety, richness, and effervescence of its communal life. Part of the 2021 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series. Delivered in Yiddish.
6.25.21
Race in America, af yidish
A collection of translations, articles, and reflections about different aspects of Jewish encounters in Yiddish with slavery and race in the United States. In Geveb’s 2021 updated Special Issue in honor of the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, in partnership with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
6.24.21
Under the Tenement Rooftops: Immigrant and Migrant Families in New York with Annie Polland
Annie Polland traces how immigration law impacted the European immigrants who settled at 97 and 103 Orchard Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and how they carved out new lives once they arrived. Part of the 2021 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series.
6.22.21
Jewish Children's Literature in Russian and Yiddish with Miriam Udel, Catriona Kelly, Stefanie Halpern, and César Merchan-Hamann
Scholars, archivists, and curators explore the rich world of Jewish children’s literature in pre-WWII Europe through the collections of YIVO and the Bodleian Library.
6.21.21
The Oyneg Shabes Archive and the Ethos of YIVO with Samuel Kassow
Samuel Kassow looks at the secret archive in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Oyneg Shabes Archives, which sought to ensure a Jewish record to tell Jewish history, even if its members did not live to see the Nazis defeated. Part of the 2021 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series. Delivered in Yiddish.
6.15.21
The Lost World of African American Cantors 1915-1953 with Henry Sapoznik
Award winning producer, author, and ethnomusicologist Henry Sapoznik looks at the phenomenon of African American musicians who performed Yiddish and cantorial music in and for the Jewish community.
6.10.21
Jewish Anarchist Women 1920-1950: The Politics of Sexuality with Elaine Leeder
Elaine Leeder discusses eight Jewish women who identified as anarchists, active during the 1920s to 1950s, and explore the complete sexual freedom that these women sought at a time when conventionality and conformity was the norm.
YIVO Presents: Jewish Children's Literature in Russian and Yiddish
YIVO announces the upcoming program, Jewish Children’s Literature in Russian and Yiddish, co-presented by YIVO and the Bodleian Library.
6.8.21
Joel Engel: Jewish Folksongs Volume III with Thomas Kotcheff
Pianist Thomas Kotcheff perform's Joel Engel's Jewish Folksongs Volume III (c. 1920): 10 Jewish folksongs, dances, and Hasidic nigunim in virtuosic piano arrangements.
5.25.21
Salomea Perl & Women Yiddish Prose Writers with Ruth Murphy, Anna Fishman Gonshor, and Justin Cammy
Translator Ruth Murphy, Anna Fishman Gonshor, and Justin Cammy, in a discussion moderated by Rokhl Kafrissen, celebrate Murphy's new translation Salomea Perl’s writings and reflect on how previously ignored or lost female authors have been brought into the Yiddish canon.
5.19.21
Embodying Liberty: American Jewish Attorneys and the Case for Humanizing Public Charge with Hannah Zaves-Greene
Hannah Zaves-Greene examines the legal advocacy of Max Kohler and other American Jewish attorneys who marshalled their deep knowledge of American jurisprudence to defang the laws passed to restrict immigration.
YIVO Presents: A Taste of Rome’s Historic Jewish Cuisine with Leah Koenig
YIVO announces the upcoming program, A Taste of Rome’s Historic Jewish Cuisine, with celebrated cookbook author Leah Koenig.
5.5.21
Information Hunters with Kathy Peiss and Eddy Portnoy
Author Kathy Peiss and Eddy Portnoy (YIVO's Director of Exhibitions) discuss the unprecedented effort by an unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe.
5.4.21
Leftists on Left-Wing Antisemitism with Spencer Sunshine, Sina Arnold, Shane Burley, Keith Kahn-Harris, and Joshua Leifer
This unique panel brings together four scholars and activists on the Left who have a range of views to discuss conflicting notions of what Left antisemitism consists of, where different parts of the Left stand in relation to this issue, how the Left addresses or ignores the issue, and constructive ways this issue can be dealt with.
4.28.21
Cry, My Heart, Cry: Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive, Vol. 2 with Joshua Camp, Dmitry Ishenko, Craig Judelman, Sasha Lurje, and D. Zisl Slepovitch
A celebration for the release of Cry, My Heart, Cry: Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive, Vol. 2, an album of songs drawn from Holocaust survivors’ testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive, with performances and a live digital discussion with the musicians behind this project.
2021-2022 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows
Congratulations to the recipients of YIVO’s 2021-2022 faculty and graduate student fellowships.
4.27.21
The Jewish Experience in Opera with Ofer Ben-Amots, David Schiff, Bruce Adolphe, Alex Weiser, Ben Kaplan, and Neil W. Levin
Composers Ofer Ben-Amots, David Schiff, Bruce Adolphe, and Alex Weiser, and librettist Ben Kaplan discuss what qualifies as a "Jewish opera" and Jewish themes in music in this panel moderated by YIVO’s Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music Neil W. Levin.
4.22.21
Sutzkever Essential Prose with Zachary Sholem Berger, Miriam Trinh, and Karolina Szymaniak
Celebrate the publication of Sutzkever Essential Prose, which brings largely unknown prose of Avrom Sutzkever to English audiences, with translator Zackary Sholem Berger and scholars Miriam Trinh and Karolina Szymaniak, moderated by Justin Cammy.
4.21.21
Continuing Evolution 2: Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music with the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program
A digital premiere performance of five new compositions commissioned by YIVO, performed alongside archival recordings of the Yiddish folksongs they engage with.
YIVO Presents: Leftists on Left-Wing Antisemitism
YIVO is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Leftists on Left-Wing Antisemitism, featuring a unique panel of four scholars, journalists, and activists on the Left.
4.20.21
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos with Judy Batalion and Andrew Silow-Carroll
Judy Batalion and Andrew Silow-Carroll (New York Jewish Week) discuss Batalion’s new book about the “ghetto girls” who helped transform Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis.
Carnegie Hall’s Voices of Hope comes to YIVO: Cry, My Heart, Cry
YIVO is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Cry, My Heart, Cry: Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive, Vol. 2, celebrating the new album release produced by D. Zisl Slepovitch.
4.16.21
YIVO Presents: Continuing Evolution 2: Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music
On Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at 1:00pm (EDT), YIVO will host the digital musical performance premiere, Continuing Evolution 2: Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music. This event will feature five world premiere compositions commissioned for the occasion by YIVO.
4.14.21
Carnegie Hall’s Voices of Hope comes to YIVO: Sutzkever Essential Prose
YIVO is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Sutzkever Essential Prose, celebrating Zackary Sholem Berger’s new book translating prose by famed Yiddish poet, partisan, and holocaust survivor Avrom Sutzkever.
4.13.21
Glikl's Afterlives: On the Circulation and Reception of Glikl's Memoirs with Matthew Johnson
Matthew Johnson explores the belated circulation and reception of Glikl's memoirs to answer the question, "How did Glikl become such an iconic and oft-cited figure in Ashkenazic cultural history?"
4.12.21
Project Collections Available Online
A list of the 47 collections from the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project available to view online, containing prewar YIVO administrative records, Yiddish theater and literature, Jewish community council records, and the personal papers of historical figures like Simon Dubnow and Shalom Schwarzbard.
4.6.21
Musical Shadows of the Warsaw Ghetto: A "New Haggada" and the Sanctity of Memory
To commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19, Neil W. Levin—YIVO's Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music—has written a comprehensive article for us, titled: MUSICAL SHADOWS OF THE WARSAW GHETTO—A "New Haggada" and the Sanctity of Memory.
4.2.21
Remote Research Sessions
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the launch of remote research sessions with a YIVO archivist beginning April 8. Researchers will have the opportunity to go through YIVO Archives materials of their choosing with a YIVO archivist via Zoom.
3.23.21
Nazi-Looted Art and Archives: Recovering and Preserving Jewish Culture with Jonathan Brent and Howard Spiegler
The ravages of the Holocaust and post-World War II led to the theft and disappearance of art, archives, and personal assets. Join Jonathan Brent (YIVO Executive Director & CEO) and Howard Spiegler (Co-Chair of Herrick, Feinstein LLP’s Art Law Group) for a discussion on the quest to recover and preserve these cultural treasures.
3.8.21
Leaving Behind the Froyen-vinkl, or How Women Functioned in the Male World of Yiddish Literature with Jan Karski & Pola Nireńska Award recipient Joanna Lisek
Joanna Lisek presents the strategies women used to break their way into the sphere of the printed Yiddish word when few avenues were available for them to make their voices heard.
3.2.21
Beba Epstein: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl, with Michael Leventhal, Antony Polonsky, Karolina Ziulkoski, Jonathan Brent, and Gal Beckerman
Celebrate our new online exhibition with Beba Epstein's son, Michael Leventhal, scholar Antony Polonsky, museum chief curator Karolina Ziulkoski, and YIVO's Executive Director and CEO Jonathan Brent in a discussion moderated by Gal Beckerman (The New York Times Book Review).
2.25.21
Joyva Documentary Film
Do you love Joyva? Have jelly rings and marshmallow twists been a part of your life for a long time? Is the Passover ritual in your family incomplete without Joyva on the table? There's a documentary film being made about the 115-year-old company and you can be part of it!
2.22.21
The Picture and Price of Jewish Assimilation in Documentary & Feature Silent Film, with Professor Daniel Grinberg
Using documentaries and feature silent films, Professor Daniel Grinberg analyzes the changing character and perception of Jews in both the United States and Poland in the early twentieth century and the price of assimilation for Jewish communities of this period.
2.18.21
The Archives of East-European Jewry: Past, Present and Future Challenges and Opportunities, with Jonathan Brent, Aleksander Ivanov, and Karen Robson
A panel discussion, presented by the Parkes Institute, University of Southampton, UK, about the challenges of archival research in a pandemic and questions related to the digitization and online access of collections.
2.17.21
Yiddish: Biography of a Language, with Jeffrey Shandler, Anita Norich, Ayala Fader, and Eddy Portnoy
Celebrate the publication of Jeffrey Shandler’s new book Yiddish: Biography of a Language, with Shandler, Anita Norich, and Ayala Fader, moderated by YIVO's Academic Advisor and Director of Exhibitions Eddy Portnoy.
2.16.21
Holocaust Scholarship on Trial with Professor Jan Grabowski and Journalist Masha Gessen
Scholars Jan Grabowksi and Barbara Engelking were found guilty in Poland for their book documenting the range of Polish behavior towards Jews during the Holocaust. Prof. Grabowski, in conversation with journalist Masha Gessen, discusses his response to the recent verdict as well as its political and scholarly implications.
Revitalization of Jewish Classical Music at YIVO
New works contribute a fresh perspective to these traditions and offer an opportunity for contemporary composers to musically think through the meaning and relevance of the past.
2.12.21
Holocaust Scholarship on Trial
Scholars Jan Grabowksi and Barbara Engelking were found guilty in Poland for their book documenting the range of Polish behavior towards Jews during the Holocaust. Prof. Grabowski, in conversation with journalist Masha Gessen, will discuss his response to the recent verdict as well as its political and scholarly implications.
2.9.21
Unprecedented Growth in Yiddish Learning Online at YIVO
Responding to unprecedented growth in demand for Yiddish classes over the last 12 months, YIVO is announcing a variety of forthcoming Yiddish offerings.
2.9.21
Two Jan Karski & Pola Nireńska Award Lectures in 2021
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce two unique lectures by Professor Daniel Grinberg on February 22 and Dr hab. Joanna Lisek on March 8.
2.5.21
Statement from the Executive Director
On behalf of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research we are deeply saddened and disturbed by the recent legal proceedings brought against Polish scholars Professors Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski, co-authors of the two-volume study "It's still night. The fate of Jews in selected counties of occupied Poland.”
1.12.21
Bringing History to Life
Archivists and digital experts strive to preserve a precious heritage.
1.11.21
YIVO's 2020 Roundup
2020 was a uniquely challenging year for everyone, but thanks to our incredible members and supporters, YIVO was able to continue in its mission and ensure that our global audience was able to access enriching content. Here’s a few highlights.
1.4.21
Modern Russia and The Putin System with Grigory Yavlinsky
For the Winter Program Keynote, Russian politician and economist Grigory Yavlinsky discussed the political system of modern Russia and its significance to the world.
12.22.20
Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese Food with Andrew Coe
For many Ashkenazi Jews in the U.S., Christmastime sparks memories of egg rolls and General Tso's chicken. Trace this delicious history from the turn-of-the-century Lower East Side to today’s take-out lo mein with Andrew Coe, author of Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States.
12.18.20
2019 and 2020 Jan Karski & Pola Nireńska Award
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce that Professor Daniel Grinberg and Dr hab. Joanna Lisek were named the recipients of the Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Award for the year 2019 and 2020, respectively.
12.17.20
Project Collections Available Online
A list of the 44 collections from the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project available to view online, containing prewar YIVO administrative records, Yiddish theater and literature, Jewish community council records, and the personal papers of historical figures like Simon Dubnow and Shalom Schwarzbard.
12.9.20
Sound Archive Show and Tell with Lorin Sklamberg
YIVO Sound Archivist, Lorin Sklamberg gives a show and tell of YIVO’s Sound Archives, which houses over 15,000 recordings and discusses how the art of sound recording evolved.
12.1.20
AT THE TURNING POINT, YIVO’s 2021 Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization, to Take Place Online
The 2021 YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization (January 5-22, 2021), offers its most stellar lineup of presenters to date, bringing together public intellectuals from Yale Historian Timothy Snyder to former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Grigory Yavlinsky, along with scholars from leading institutions across the globe, from the Bodleian Library (University of Oxford) to the Met Cloisters.
11.30.20
Artists Talk On Art
YIVO’s Chief of Staff Shelly Freeman, the Chief Curator of the Online Museum and Webby award-winning interactive designer Karolina Ziulkoski, and Olivia Reid, the Online Museum’s Research and Project Specialist present the recently launched first exhibition of its landmark YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum: Beba Epstein: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl.
11.23.20
Avrom Sutzkever: Ten Poems
Celebrate the publication of Tsen Lider. Ten poems. Dešimt eilėraščių with a discussion panel on Avrom Sutzkever's work with Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, Lara Lempertienė, and Justin Cammy, moderated by Jonathan Brent and with welcoming remarks by Prof. Dr. Renaldas Gudauskas.
11.18.20
Fermenting and Foraging: Resourcefulness in the Historical and Contemporary Kitchen with Jane Ziegelman, Ari Miller, and Jeremy Umansky
Explore today’s innovative tactics and the historical precedents for fermenting and foraging in the Ashkenazi Jewish immigrant kitchen at the turn of the 20th century. Moderated by Jane Ziegelman and featuring chefs Ari Miller and Jeremy Umansky.
11.10.20
Joel Engel's "Jewish Folksongs" Volumes I & II Concert
A performance of Joel Engel's Jewish Folksongs (Volume I, 1909/ Volume II, 1912), performed by singer Lucy Fitz Gibbon with pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, with a special guest appearance by Yurie Mitsuhashi.
11.9.20
Kristallnacht and Its Aftermath
Marking the 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Mannes Sounds Festival in partnership with the Jewish Music Forum/American Society for Jewish Music, the Leo Baeck Institute - New York, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the Center for Jewish History, and the UCLA Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music present KRISTALLNACHT AND ITS AFTERMATH - Remembering Terezin: A Tribute to the Artists who Perished in the Holocaust, featuring performances by young artists from Mannes School of Music.
11.6.20
Teaser for Upcoming Joel Engel's "Jewish Folksongs" Volumes I & II Concert with Alex Weiser
Alex Weiser (YIVO's Director of Public Programs) discusses the history behind Joel Engel's yidishe folkslider, a collection of Yiddish folksongs arranged into a Classical composition at the beginning of the 20th century.
10.29.20
An Incredible Journey of a Teenage Girl of Pre-War Vilna, the Holocaust and Post-War America with Jonathan Brent, Karolina Ziukulski, and Michael Leventhal
A conversation with Jonathan Brent, (YIVO's Executive Director& CEO), Karolina Ziulkoski (Chief Curator of the YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum), and Michael Leventhal, lawyer and son of the late Beba Epstein. Hosted by the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre.
10.21.20
A Brief History of the Paper Brigade with Eddy Portnoy
Using a variety of photos and books from YIVO's collections, Eddy Portnoy (YIVO’s Academic Advisor & Exhibitions Curator) gives a brief, fast-paced history of the Paper Brigade, a group of poets and scholars who risked their lives to smuggle Jewish books and materials from YIVO’s collections during World War II.
Holocaust education in the virtual COVID-19 world
YIVO’s Executive Director Jonathan Brent and the Chief Curator of the YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum Karolina Ziulkoski discuss the recently launched YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin online museum and the impact it is having globally at this United Nations event.
10.14.20
Yiddish Theater Show and Tell with Dr. Stefanie Halpern
Director of the YIVO Archives, Dr. Stefanie Halpern gives a show and tell of YIVO’s theater collections, showcasing playscripts, scores, costumes, set models and designs, photographs, playbills, posters, and more.
10.8.20
Sukkot Around the World
YIVO celebrates the diversity of Jewish cuisines around the globe. Chefs prepare a feast of their favorite remembered Sukkot dishes from Ethiopia to Hungary and Italy to North Africa.
10.7.20
Yiddish Children's Literature Today with Miriam Udel, Naomi Seidman, Jennifer Young, and Rokhl Kafrissen
A conversation on the history of Yiddish children’s literature examines the roles it can play for children today, moderated by Rokhl Kafrissen (Tablet Magazine) with Miriam Udel, Naomi Seidman, and Jennifer Young.
9.30.20
A Brief History of YIVO with Eddy Portnoy
Richly illustrated with a variety of photos, documents, and books from YIVO's collections, Eddy Portnoy (YIVO’s Academic Advisor & Exhibitions Curator) offers a crash-course on YIVO's founding in 1925 in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), its relocation to New York, the survival of its materials during the Holocaust, and its continued work today.
9.22.20
May God Avenge Their Blood: A Holocaust Memoir Triptych with Yermiyahu Ahron Taub and Bella Bryks-Klein
May God Avenge Their Blood: A Holocaust Memoir Triptych presents three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks (1912–1974). Join us for a presentation by and discussion with translator Yermiyahu Ahron Taub and Bryks' daughter, cultural activist Bella Bryks-Klein, exploring Bryks' life and work, the genesis of this project, and the related holdings in YIVO's collections.
9.13.20
Nusakh Vilne Memorial with Rivka Augenfeld and Edna Friedberg
YIVO's annual event commemorating the Jewish community of Vilna. Chaired by Elye Palevsky, moderated by YIVO's Alex Weiser, and featuring Rivka Augenfeld and Edna Friedberg, this year's commemoration reflected on the history and format of Nusakh Vilna, and the role that music, poetry, and ritual play in holocaust commemoration.
9.9.20
YIVO Receives IMLS Save America’s Treasures Grant
YIVO is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant of $119,433 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through Save America’s Treasures Grant. This grant will enable YIVO to preserve four music and theater collections that are important, yet little-known, resources for the study and exploration of not only modern Jewish culture and American Jewish immigrant culture, but also of American theater and popular culture more broadly.
9.1.20
Culture in Quarantine: Politics & Philosophy
Here’s a roundup of our recent programs on politics and philosophy.
8.24.20
Live with Olivia Reid (YIVO's Research and Project Specialist)
Olivia Reid (YIVO's Research and Project Specialist) discusses the newly lauched online museum, which is now available free to the public, and the research process that went into developing it.
8.21.20
Culture in Quarantine: Theater, Radio, and More
Here’s a roundup of our recent programs on theater, radio, and more Yiddish culture.
8.20.20
Live with Chief Curator Karolina Ziulkoski
Chief Curator Karolina Ziulkoski discusses the newly launched YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum and its first exhibition, Beba Epstein: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary.
8.13.20
YIVO Launches New Online Museum with Interactive Exhibition Exploring East European Jewish Life in the 20th Century
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research announces the inauguration of its landmark YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum, which is being made available free of charge to the global public.
8.12.20
Culture in Quarantine: Literature
Here’s a roundup of our recent literature-related programs.
8.10.20
Cantata Profana performs Gustav Mahler’s 'Das Lied von der Erde'
YIVO joins forces with the young, “intrepid” (New Yorker) instrumental and vocal chamber ensemble Cantata Profana to present Gustav Mahler’s epic song symphony, Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) in Arnold Schoenberg and Rainer Riehn’s chamber orchestra arrangement.
8.9.20
BEYLE100: Celebrating a Century of the Yiddish Songs, Poetry & Artistic Vision of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
An online concert celebrating the 100th birthday of Yiddish songwriter, poet, and singer Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman (1920-2013), featuring many of the Yiddish world’s leading contemporary performers. (This program is primarily in Yiddish.)
8.7.20
Amidst a Pandemic, a Revolution in Yiddish Learning
120 students from 14 countries graduated from The Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, the world’s longest-running Yiddish summer program.
8.5.20
Culture in Quarantine: Music
Here’s a roundup of our recent music-related programs.
8.2.20
Live with Kate Flannery (The Office) and Shelly Friedman (YIVO’s Chief of Staff)
Actress Kate Flannery speaks with Shelly Freeman about Yiddish, its contribution to theater and comedy, and American Yiddish musical duo the Barry Sisters.
7.29.20
At the Table with Ben Kaplan
In conjunction with the launch of our newest online course, A Seat at the Table: A Journey into Jewish Food, YIVO’s Director of Education, Ben Kaplan, hosted a series of online discussions with popular chefs, restaurateurs, and scholars on the topic of Jewish food, and to find out what they have been cooking while home.
7.27.20
Brider un shvester fun arbet un noyt. A geshikhte fun 'bund.' with Jack Jacobs
Jack Jacobs delves into the history of the Bund, and its ideological development, and examines both the reasons for the Bund’s success and the party’s limitations. (Delivered in Yiddish)
7.23.20
The Accidental Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater with Alyssa Quint
Alyssa Quint explores the particular social, commercial, cultural, linguistic, and historical circumstances that gave rise to the first public performances of Yiddish operetta in Romania and Russia from 1876 to 1883, a period considered the first chapter of the modern Yiddish theater.
7.21.20
Confronting Hitler's Professors with Kalman Weiser
Kalman Weiser explores how German scholar Franz Beranek presented himself to Jewish colleagues and how Jewish colleagues sought to respond to him as a person and to his scholarship in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
7.20.20
Stutchkoff and Yiddish Radio with Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel
Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel explores Yiddish lexicographer Nahum Stutchkoff’s legacy within the “golden age” of Yiddish radio, drawing on his rich archive in the Dorot Jewish Division, New York Public Library. Part of the 2020 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series. (Delivered in Yiddish)
7.16.20
Chaim Zhitlovsky and His Philosophy of Yiddishism with Tony Michels
Tony Michels explores the life and thought of Chaim Zhitlovsky, one of the most intriguing Jewish thinkers of the modern era. Part of the 2020 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series.
7.13.20
Ab. Cahan's Early Experiments in Yiddish Journalism with Ellie Kellman
Ellie Kellman analyzes the language and content of Di Sedre and the original version of Rafol Naaritsokh to broaden the scope of scholarly evaluation of Abraham Cahan's early contribution to the Yiddish press. Part of the 2020 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series. (Delivered in Yiddish)
7.9.20
The Barton Brothers, Mickey Katz, and Others: Yiddish-English Bilingual Parody Songs with Ronald Robboy
Ronald Robboy explores music by the Barton Brothers, Mickey Katz, and Allan Sherman in the decades following World War II. Part of the 2020 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series.
7.6.20
Where Is The Capital of Yiddishland? with Kalman Weiser
Kalman Weiser explores what the competition between litvish Vilna and poylish Warsaw to become the "Capital of Yiddishland" teaches us about the state of Yiddish and about Yiddishist hopes and fears for the language's future. Part of the 2020 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series. (Delivered in Yiddish)
7.2.20
Yiddish Children’s Literature and Jewish Modernity with Miriam Udel
Miriam Udel explores how Yiddish children’s literature of the 20th century shaped and reflected key aspects of the modern Jewish experience. Part of the 2020 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series.
7.1.20
Jewish Physicians and Medical Work in Nazi Camps and after Liberation with Sari J. Siegel
Sari J. Siegel examines the roles and circumstances of two doctors in different Nazi camps during the Holocaust.
6.30.20
Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music with Cantata Profana's Annie Rosen, Emily Donato, Jacob Ashworth, and Daniel Schlosberg
A premiere of new works commissioned by YIVO, by composers Martin Bresnick, Marti Epstein, Aaron Kernis, Judith Shatin, and Alex Weiser.
6.29.20
Eating Right and Left: Food and Political Alignment in the Yiddish Press with Eve Jochnowitz
Eve Jochnowitz examines what values Yiddish writers in Europe, the Americas, and Palestine considered “liberal,” and how they saw food practices. Part of the 2020 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series. (Delivered in Yiddish)
6.23.20
Sephardic Art Song: A Musical Legacy of the Sephardic Diaspora concert with mezzo-soprano and music scholar Lori Şen, guitarist Jeremy Lyons and pianist Alexei Ulitin
A recital of Sephardic songs with Lori Sen, Jeremy Lyons, and Alexei Ulitin.
Sephardic Art Song: A Musical Legacy of the Sephardic Diaspora pre-concert lecture with mezzo-soprano and music scholar Lori Şen
Lori Şen discusses the history, language, and culture of the Sephardim, with a special focus on the elements and stylistic features of Sephardic music.
6.22.20
Live with Ben Kaplan (Director of Education), Richard Radutzky, and Sandy Wiener
Ben Kaplan, Richard Radutzky, and Sandy Wiener discuss the history of JOYVA.
YIVO Institute For Jewish Research Presents A Seat at the Table: A Journey Into Jewish Food
YIVO presents its newest online course, A Seat at the Table: A Journey Into Jewish Food.
6.17.20
Live with Tony Michels (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Tony Michels presents “The East Side Jew Who Conquered Europe: Leon Trotsky Through the Eyes of Jews.”
Please note: this lecture will only be available to view until Wednesday, June 24.
6.16.20
YIVO Presents: Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music
YIVO presents its upcoming digital musical performance preview, Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music, featuring five world premiere compositions commissioned for the occasion by YIVO.
6.15.20
Live with Ben Kaplan (Director of Education) and Peter Hoffman
Ben Kaplan and and Peter Hoffman discuss Jewish food, Identity, and Social Justice.
6.11.20
Live with Singer Lucy Fitz Gibbon and pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough
Lucy Fitz Gibbon and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough perform 10 Children’s Songs of Y. L. Peretz (1921) by composer Moses Milner.
6.10.20
Live with Jonathan Brent (YIVO Executive Director), Eddy Portnoy (YIVO Academic Advisor & Exhibitions Curator), Abraham Lichtenbaum (IWO Director General) and Silvia Hansman (IWO Director of Collections)
YIVO’s Jonathan Brent and Eddy Portnoy speak with Abraham Lichtenbaum and Silvia Hansman about the history and work of IWO in Argentina.
6.9.20
Live with Shelly Freeman (YIVO's Chief of Staff) speaks to Sholem Aleichem College's Helen Greenberg (Principal) and Reyzl Zylberman (Director of Jewish Studies and Languages)
Shelly Freeman speaks to Helen Greenberg and Reyzl Zylberman about Sholem Aleichem College in Melbourne, Australia – the only operating Secular Yiddish day School in the world.
6.8.20
Live with Ben Kaplan (Director of Education) and Michael Wex
Ben Kaplan and Michael Wex talk about YIVO's newest online course, A Seat at the Table: A Journey into Jewish Food.
YIVO’s Online Community Grows Exponentially
6.4.20
Live with Jonathan Brent (YIVO Executive Director & CEO), in conversation with David Weisberg (CEO of the Federation for Jewish Philanthropy)
Jonathan Brent, in conversation with David Weisberg, discusses about the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project and other important activities of YIVO today.
Statement from Jonathan Brent
YIVO grieves for George Floyd’s family, the Minneapolis community, and our country. We stand together with every organization fighting for an anti-racist future.
6.3.20
Live with Scholar Gabriella Safran
Gabriella Safran explores the roots of S. An-ski’s play, The Dybbuk, a story of possession set in a shtetl.
6.2.20
Live with Roni Masel (Max Weinreich Fellow)
Roni Masel explores the images of the ghost, the undead, and the zombie in the bilingual, Hebrew-Yiddish works of Hayim Nahman Bialik and Isaac Leib Peretz.
6.1.20
Live with Ben Kaplan (Director of Education) and Eve Jochnowitz
Ben Kaplan and Eve Jochnowitz talk about YIVO's newest online course, A Seat at the Table: A Journey into Jewish Food.
5.27.20
Live with Rachel Rojanski, Rachel Brenner, Shachar Pinsker, and Sunny Yudkoff
Rachel Rojanski, in conversation with Rachel Brenner, Shachar Pinsker, and Sunny Yudkoff, discusses her latest book, Yiddish in Israel - A History.
Live with author and illustrator Ben Katchor and writer, specialist in food culture and immigrant history Lara Rabinovitch, and Eddy Portnoy (YIVO’s Academic Advisor and Director of Exhibitions)
Author and illustrator Ben Katchor and writer and specialist in food culture and immigrant history Lara Rabinovitch, in a conversation led by Eddy Portnoy as part of The Great Big Jewish Food Fest.
What Does It Mean to Digitize Documents and Books?
Find out more about the digitization process and why digitization is so important.
5.26.20
Live with Ben Kaplan (Director of Education) and Dovid Braun (YIVO's Summer Program Academic Director)
Dovid Braun and Ben Kaplan discuss Yiddish dialects and the upcoming application deadline for the this year's Summer Program.
Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series, Summer 2020
5.25.20
Live with Ben Kaplan (Director of Education) and Leah Koenig
Ben Kaplan and Leah Koenig talk about YIVO's newest online course, A Seat at the Table: A Journey into Jewish Food.
Jewish Artists and the Russian Avant-Garde Tour Postponed
5.24.20
Live with Liz Alpern (Gefilteria), Jeffrey Yoskowitz (Gefilteria), Ben Kaplan (Director of Education), and Alex Weiser (YIVO Director of Public Programs)
Liz Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz give a live cooking demo as part of The Great Big Jewish Food Fest. Moderated by Alex Weiser and Ben Kaplan.
5.21.20
Live with Lorin Sklamberg (YIVO Sound Archivist)
Listening Session with Lorin Sklamberg, food-related songs from the YIVO Archives.
5.20.20
Live with Alex Weiser (Director of Public Programs) and journalist and playwright Rokhl Kafrissen
Alex Weiser speaks with Rokhl Kafrissen about her new play, Shtumer shabes.
What Does It Mean to Conserve Documents and Books?
Find out more about the conservation process and why it is important to conserve the materials in YIVO’s collections.
5.19.20
Live with Eddy Portnoy (Director of Public Programs) and Charlie Buckholtz (Bad Rabbi Podcast)
Charlie Buckholtz and Eddy Portnoy discuss Portnoy’s book, Bad Rabbi and Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press for this live recording of Buckholtz's Bad Rabbi Podcast.
5.18.20
Live with Ben Kaplan (Director of Education) and Jane Ziegelman (Author and Director of the Culinary Program at New York City's Tenement Museum)
Ben Kaplan and Jane Ziegelman talk about YIVO's newest online course, A Seat at the Table: A Journey into Jewish Food.
5.14.20
Live with Shelly Freeman (YIVO's Chief of Staff) and Eric Stein (Director of the Ashkenaz Festival)
Shelly Freeman interviews Eric Stein, Director of the Ashkenaz Festival, which is dedicated to fostering increased awareness of Yiddish and Jewish culture through the arts.
5.13.20
Live with Eléonore Biezunski (YIVO Associate Sound Archivist)
Eléonore Biezunski presents a digital tour of YIVO’s website, Ruth Rubin Legacy.
What Does It Mean to Preserve Documents and Books?
Find out more about how the YIVO Preservation Department works to safeguard all the materials in YIVO's collections from deteriorating over time.
5.12.20
Live with Eddy Portnoy (Academic Advisor & Exhibitions Curator) and David Slucki
David Slucki and Eddy Portnoy discuss Slucki's new book, Sing This at My Funeral – A Memoir of Fathers and Sons.
5.11.20
Live with Ben Kaplan (YIVO Director of Education) and Journalist and Author Alice Feiring
Ben Kaplan and Alice Feiring talk about YIVO's newest online course, A Seat at the Table: A Journey into Jewish Food, and natural wine.
5.10.20
Shelly Freeman (YIVO Chief of Staff) on Zoom from New York on The SHTICK
Shelly Freeman discusses YIVO’s online courses, including A Seat At The Table on Jewish Food and Oh Mama, I'm In Love, on Yiddish Theater.
Dr. Stefanie Halpern (Director of the YIVO Archives) Zooms in from New York on The SHTICK
Stefanie Halpern discusses YIVO’s Archives, including the OZE collection, an early 20th century campaign of medical advice for Jews, which contains similar guidelines to those in use during this pandemic. She also discusses the Share Your Story initiative gathering stories of how the COVID-19 experience has affected people's lives.
5.7.20
Live with Shelly Freeman (YIVO's Chief of Staff), President Renata Singer and Vice President Joe Tigel of the Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library in Melbourne, Australia
Shelly Freeman speaks with Renata Singer and Joe Tigel of the Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library in Melbourne, Australia
5.6.20
Live with Stefanie Halpern (Director of the YIVO Archives)
Stefanie Halpern discusses YIVO’s Jewish Life During the Pandemic Collecting
YIVO’s Alex Weiser a Finalist for Pulitzer Prize in Music
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce that its Director of Public Programs, Alex Weiser, has been named a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his song cycle, and all the days were purple.
5.5.20
#GivingTuesdayNow
Every year, on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, the world comes together for Giving Tuesday, to spread generosity and give back to the people, organizations, and charities you believe in. Together, we are facing a new challenge and it is time, once again, to come together to support and comfort our community. Join us on Tuesday, May 5 for #GivingTuesdayNow. Thanks to a generous matching gift challenge from our board, your gift with have even more impact!
- THE YIVO INSTITUTE – Jonathan Brent (YIVO Executive Director)
- EDUCATION – Ben Kaplan (Director of Education)
- PUBLIC PROGRAMS AND EXHIBITIONS – Alex Weiser (Director of Public Programs) and Eddy Portnoy (Academic Advisor & Exhibitions Curator)
- THE ONLINE MUSEUM – Karolina Ziulkoski (Chief Curator, Online Museum) and Olivia Reid (Research and Project Specialist)
- DEEP DIVE INTO THE ARCHIVES – Stefanie Halpern (Director of the YIVO Archives) and Hallel Yadin (Archives Associate)
5.4.20
Live with Ben Kaplan (YIVO Director of Education) and Chef and Author Joan Nathan
Ben Kaplan and Joan Nathan talk about YIVO's newest online course, A Seat at the Table: A Journey into Jewish Food.
YIVO Receives CLIR Recordings at Risk Grant
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is thrilled to announce that it has been awarded a $29,992 Recordings at Risk Grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). This grant will enable YIVO to preserve the YIVO Folksong Project: East European Jewish Folksong in its Social Context (YFP).
5.1.20
Live with Ben Kaplan (YIVO Director of Education)
Ben Kaplan announces that our online course, A Seat at the Table: A Journey into Jewish Food, is now live and gives a brief demo of how to take the course.
4.29.20
Live with Eléonore Biezunski (Associate Sound Archivist)
Eléonore Biezunski shares a new recording of a Yiddish song from the YIVO Archives.
4.28.20
Live with Ben Kaplan (YIVO Director of Education) and Liz Alpern (The Gefiltera)
Liz Alpern and Ben Kaplan talk about YIVO's upcoming online course, A Seat at the Table: A Journey into Jewish Food.
4.27.20
Where is Our Homeland? Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive
The Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sasha Lurje perform Where is Our Homeland, an album of songs transcribed from Holocaust survivors’ testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Live with Ben Kaplan (YIVO Director of Education) and Dovid Braun (YIVO's Summer Program Academic Director)
Ben Kaplan and Dovid Braun announce an important update to this year's Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture.
YIVO’s 2020 Summer Program to Take Place Online
Given the extraordinary circumstances of the current moment and to ensure the safety of our students and faculty YIVO will conduct the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture online for summer 2020 (June 29-August 7). In light of this change, the deadline for submitting applications and financial aid requests has been extended to May 29, 2020.
4.24.20
Live with Alex Weiser (YIVO Director of Public Programs) and Zisl Slepovitch
Alex Weiser and Zisl Slepovitch discuss Where is Our Homeland? Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive.
4.23.20
Live with Harriet Murav (University of Illinois) and Justin Cammy (Smith College)
Harriet Murav and Justin Cammy discuss Murav's latest book, A Strange New World: Time in David Bergelson’s Literary Work.
4.22.20
Facebook Live with Ben Kaplan (YIVO Director of Education)
Ben Kaplan discusses YIVO's online course, Folksong, Demons, & the Evil Eye: Folklore of Ashkenaz.
4.21.20
YouTube Live with Jonathan Brent (YIVO Executive Director & CEO), Anna Bokshitskaya (Executive Vice-President of the Russian Jewish Congress), and Lilia Ostrovski (Head of Combating Antisemitism program)
Jonathan Brent and Anna Bokshitskaya and Lilia Ostrovski discuss Jewish life In Russia during the pandemic.
4.20.20
Beethoven in the Yiddish Imagination
A performance of Ode to Joy in Yiddish translation, a bilingual dramatic reading of a Yiddish retelling of an apocryphal story of the origins of the Moonlight Sonata, and performances of two of Beethoven's masterworks with Jewish connections.
Sneak Peek: Herring
For this sneak peek into our upcoming online course on Jewish food, Josh Russ Tupper leads us on a site visit to Russ & Daughters and gives a unique look at the history surrounding herring.
4.17.20
Facebook Live with Shelly Freeman (YIVO Chief of Staff) and Simon Starr and Willy Zygier (Co-Founders of YID!)
Shelly Freeman discusses an exciting reimagining of Yiddish music with Simon Starr and Willy Zygier co-founders of YID! – An Australian Yiddish band with a difference.
2020-2021 Max Weinreich Center for Jewish Research Fellows
Congratulations to the recipients of YIVO’s 2020-2021 faculty and graduate student fellowships.
4.14.20
Facebook Live with Ben Kaplan (Director of Education) and Darra Goldstein
Darra Goldstein and Ben Kaplan (Director of Education) talk about YIVO's upcoming online course, A Seat at the Table: A Journey into Jewish Food.
4.13.20
Facebook Live with Dovid Braun
Dovid Braun, Social Distancing Terminology in Yiddish (video in Yiddish).
4.8.20
Facebook Live with YIVO's Academic Advisor & Exhibitions Curator, Eddy Portnoy
Eddy Portnoy, The Birth of the Yiddish Press
YIVO Launches New Archival Initiative to Gather Stories of Jewish Life during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Please help us document Jewish life during this time by sharing your experiences including observing rituals and maintaining communal traditions, preparing for Passover, participating in organizations, and keeping connected to family and friends.
4.7.20
Facebook Live with YIVO Director of Education, Ben Kaplan
Ben Kaplan discusses our online course, Discovering Ashkenaz: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe.
4.6.20
Facebook Live with YIVO Director of Public Programs, Alex Weiser
Alex Weiser, The Song of Songs and Music It Has Inspired
4.3.20
Facebook Live with YIVO Director of Education, Ben Kaplan and The Gefilteria's Jeffrey Yoskowitz
Jeffrey Yoskowitz and Ben Kaplan talk about YIVO's upcoming online course, A Seat at the Table: A Journey into Jewish Food.
4.2.20
Facebook Live with Joshua Meyers (Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica Harvard University)
Joshua Meyers, A Brief History of the Bund
YIVO’s Newest Online Course, Focused on Jewish Food, Launches May 1
4.1.20
Facebook Live with YIVO Sound Archivist, Lorin Sklamberg
Lorin Sklamberg gives a brief lecture on Passover music.
How To Make Matzo Ball Soup with Liz Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz (The Gefilteria)
In this sneak peek into our upcoming online course, Liz Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz demonstrate how to make a traditional Matzo Ball Soup for Passover this year.
3.31.20
Facebook Live with Director of the YIVO Archive, Stefanie Halpern
Stefanie Halpern presents the OZE Posters on Public Health, digitized and available through the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections.
3.30.20
Facebook Live with YIVO Director of Education, Ben Kaplan and Director of the YIVO Archive, Stefanie Halpern
Ben Kaplan and Stefanie Halpern discuss our online class on Yiddish theater, Oh Mama, I'm in Love! The Story of the Yiddish Stage.
YIVO Executive Director Jonathan Brent to Teach Free New Online Course Starting April 20
3.29.20
Remote Volunteer Opportunities with YIVO
3.27.20
Facebook Live with Karolina Ziulkoski, Chief Curator
Karolina Ziulkoski, Chief Curator, previews the YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum.
Preview of the YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum
3.26.20
Facebook Live with YIVO Archives Associate, Hallel Yadin
Hallel Yadin discusses Archives activity, the LibGuide, the Yeshurun Project, and a couple of remote volunteer opportunities.
The Literary Tour of Jewish Galicia Postponed
3.25.20
Facebook Live with YIVO Director of Public Programs, Alex Weiser
Alex Weiser highlights past Yiddish and Hebrew Liederabend programs, which can be viewed online now.
3.24.20
Facebook Live with Eddy Portnoy, YIVO's Academic Advisor & Exhibitions Curator
Eddy Portnoy gives a brief history of YIVO.
3.23.20
Facebook Live with Eléonore Biezunski, Associate Sound Archivist at YIVO
Eléonore Biezunski gives an update about the YIVO Sound Archive, talks about the Ruth Rubin Online Exhibition, and shares a new recorded Yiddish performance.
3.19.20
Facebook Live with YIVO's Research and Project Specialist, Olivia Reid
Olivia Reid discusses the creation of YIVO’s online museum and other digital resources.
3.18.20
All YIVO Online Classes Now Free
Facebook Live with Director of the YIVO Archive, Stefanie Halpern
Stefanie Halpern gives an update about the YIVO Archives and discusses creating a family archive.
3.17.20
Update on YIVO’s 2020 Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, & Culture
Facebook Live with YIVO Director of Education, Ben Kaplan
Ben Kaplan provides an update about YIVO’s educational programming and talks more about YIVO’s digital resources.
3.16.20
Facebook Live with YIVO Director of Public Programs, Alex Weiser
Alex Weiser gives a general update about YIVO operations and public programs and discusses available digital resources.
3.13.20
YIVO is temporarily closed to the public until further notice. All of YIVO’s scheduled Public Programs will be cancelled during this period; however, our online resources remain active and vibrant. We encourage everyone to use our online materials as a source of inspiration and meaningful activity.