YIVO Press Releases

This May, YIVO is hosting Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today, the largest music festival of its kind featuring four concerts which cross stylistic boundaries between classical and folk music.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) and Stockton University are pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition, After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps, on view from March 21 to April 28, 2022.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has completed the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project (EBYVOC), a historic 7-year, $7 million initiative to process, conserve and digitize YIVO’s divided prewar library and archival collections. Through the Project, these materials have been digitally reunited through a dedicated web portal, making them accessible to a worldwide audience for the first time.

The 2022 YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization, to be held online this winter (January 4-21, 2022), offers a diverse lineup of presenters from around the world.

For the fourth year in a row, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will delve into how Jewish culture developed around Christmas.

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 2021 to Professor Jan Doktór.

This fall, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will be premiering two Sidney Krum Young Artists Concerts featuring Hebrew and Yiddish folksongs from the 1920s and 1930s.

YIVO presents a panel exploring the status of Jews in Europe in the 21st century.

YIVO is delighted to announce the addition of Warren Stern and Deborah Veach to its Board of Directors. These additions reflect the unprecedented growth YIVO has seen since the beginning of the pandemic.

Join Curt Leviant, in conversation with Dvora Reich, about Sholem Aleichem and his newly re-discovered novel Moshkeleh Ganev.