YIVO Press Releases
YIVO Commemorates the Jewish Community of Vilna
YIVO commemorates the Jewish community of Vilna – the birth place of YIVO – through poetry and song.
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.
After a Year of Pandemic, Online Yiddish Learning is Here to Stay
On Friday, 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.
YIVO Presents: Jewish Children's Literature in Russian and Yiddish
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Jewish Children's Literature in Russian and Yiddish, co-presented with the Bodleian Library.
YIVO Presents: Joel Engel: Jewish Folksongs Volume III
YIVO presents a performance of Joel Engel's Jewish Folksongs Volume III (c. 1920) including 10 Jewish folksongs, dances, and Hasidic nigunim in virtuosic piano arrangements.
YIVO Presents: A Taste of Rome’s Historic Jewish Cuisine With Leah Koenig
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce its upcoming program, A Taste of Rome’s Historic Jewish Cuisine with celebrated cookbook author Leah Koenig, taking place on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 1:00pm (ET).
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.
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.
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.
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.