Árni Ingólfsson examines Robert Abraham, Heinz Edelstein, and Victor Urbancic's formative years in Germany and Austria, their dramatic escapes from the Nazi regime, and their triumphs and frustrating setbacks in Iceland.

Shaul Stampfer, Lara Lempertienė, Tzipora Weinberg, and Daniel Reiser, in a discussion led by Andrew Silow-Carroll, reflect on their new volume, which addresses the religious life of the Lithuanian Jewish community over time.

In a conversation led by Samuel Kassow, Steven D. Meed discusses his new translation of Vladka Meed’s memoir, which details how she served in the Warsaw ghetto’s Jewish underground by passing as a Christian outside its walls.

Elissa Bemporad, Mikhl Yashinsky, and Glenn Dynner explore two new translations from YIVO’s Yiddish Voices series, The Destruction of Dubova by Rokhl Faygenberg and The Mother of Yiddish Theater by Ester-Rokhl Kaminska.

Zofia Hartman, in conversation with Agnieszka Legutko, discusses how consul of the Empire of Japan in Kaunas, Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara, saved several thousand Jews during the Holocaust by issuing transit visas.

Ryan MacEvoy McCullough performs Book I of Juliusz Wolfsohn’s Paraphrasen, a collection of 12 virtuosic piano fantasies based on Yiddish folksongs.

For YIVO’s annual December Dilemma-themed event, Neta Stahl will discuss how Jewish writers portrayed Jesus during periods of significant transformations in Jewish life. A kosher Chinese food dinner will follow the presentation.

Join YIVO for the New York City premiere of Swedishkayt: YidLife Crisis in Stockholm, followed by a Q&A with YIVO Senior Academic Advisor & Director of Exhibitions, Eddy Portnoy.

The annual Hanukkah concert celebrates this joyous holiday with songs and stories that charm and delight audiences.

In this lecture, Sir Richard J. Evans argues that while many factors contributed to the fall of the Weimar Republic, its collapse ultimately stemmed from Germany’s weak democratic culture, which left it unable to withstand the economic challenge of the Depression and the political onslaught of Hitler and the Nazis.

Join YIVO for this concert featuring a variety of chamber and vocal music by Leo Zeitlin, best know for his Eli Zion for cello and orchestra, alongside works by composers with whom he was in dialogue.

In this lecture, scholar and performer Walter Zev Feldman explores the vibrant, yet largely concealed, musical culture of the klezmer revitalization in New York, Philadelphia and other American cities in the 1960s.

In this lecture demonstration, scholar-musician Jeremiah Lockwood discusses some of the major stars of the cantorial “golden age” and explores the emergence of khazones (cantorial music).

Join us for a special concert of Coney Island Days (2022) by Alex Weiser and the New York premiere of Muriel’s Songs (2023) by Eric Chasalow, two song cycles that commemorate the composers’ grandmothers and detail how they navigated 20th century American Jewish life in New York City. 

This lecture by scholar Ronald Robboy will explore the idea that George Gershwin’s internalization of Black Americans’ music was influenced by his early immersion in Yiddish theater.

Join YIVO for a performance of the music of Khantshe in Amerike, a 1912 operetta that touches on serious topics including love, gender, women's suffrage and the changing social status of women in turn-of-the-century America and was noted for having put “American rhythm” on the Yiddish stage for the first time.