YIVO Press Releases

The Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Award Committee, comprised of Jonathan Brent (Executive Director of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research), Monika Krawczyk (director of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute), Ewa Geller, Tadeusz Epsztein and Andrzej Żbikowski, has awarded the prize for the year 2022 to Professor Anna Landau-Czajka.

The 2023 YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization will be held online this winter (January 10-27, 2023).

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce this fall's YIVO Yiddish Club sessions.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce its participation in a series of events — with Carnegie Hall, the Fisher Center at Bard College, and the Hugo Kauder Society — celebrating the work and legacy of Austrian Jewish composer Hugo Kauder (1888-1972).

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to purchase the materials to rehouse YIVO’s historic Jewish Political and Labor Movement Archives.

On Friday, July 29, 2022, 76 students graduated from The Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, the world’s longest-running Yiddish summer program.

Returning for its fourth 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.

On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 1:00pm (ET), the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents Are We in the Midst of a Yiddish Renaissance? Join YIVO on Zoom for a conversation about the Yiddish world today.

On Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 1:00pm (ET), the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is thrilled to announce the opening of its first on-site exhibition since COVID to take place on Thursday, May 5, Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis.