YIVO Press Releases

YIVO launches a new online-exhibition highlighting the field recordings of over 1,500 Yiddish lider (songs) made by renowned vocalist and scholar, Ruth Rubin.

Senator Dick Durbin is receiving YIVO’s Founders Award for his role in preserving the nearly-destroyed legacy of the rich and vibrant Jewish culture in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Kids, parents, and grandparents will experience the delightful diversity of Jewish culture from countries around the world in this Purim-themed March Mash-Up of family fun.

As the Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar, Mr. Berman will teach a public evening class, “Jewish Anarchism: A History & Present-Day Reflections,” and present a public lecture, “The Unknown and Heroic Anarchist Struggle Against Communism.”

Going boldly where no Jewish museums have gone before, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Center for Jewish History are pleased to announce the launch of their joint exhibition, “Jews in Space: Members of the Tribe in Orbit.”

Jonathan Brent presents “Rare Works and the Reclamation of the Cultural History of European Jews” to Ezra-Habonim, the Niles Township Jewish Cong.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents the “intrepid” (New Yorker) vocal and instrumental chamber ensemble Cantata Profana in Gustav Mahler’s epic song symphony, Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth).

Rare and unpublished works represent the collective memory and cultural history of Eastern European and Russian Jews.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents a two-day conference on Jews in and after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Professor Steven J. Zipperstein of Stanford is the lead academic advisor.

The program will consist of formal presentations on Bund history, performances of songs and poetry (in English and Yiddish) and commentary by contemporary activists.