YIVO Press Releases

Jonathan Brent (YIVO’s Executive Director and CEO) and Howard Spiegler (co-chair of Herrick, Feinstein LLP’s Art Law Group) discuss the quest to recover and preserve the cultural treasures lost and stolen during the Holocaust and post-World War II.

Scholars Jan Grabowksi and Barbara Engelking were found guilty in Poland for their book documenting the range of Polish behavior towards Jews during the Holocaust. Prof. Grabowski, in conversation with journalist Masha Gessen, will discuss his response to the recent verdict as well as its political and scholarly implications.

Responding to unprecedented growth in demand for Yiddish classes over the last 12 months, YIVO is announcing a variety of forthcoming Yiddish offerings.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce two unique lectures by Professor Daniel Grinberg on February 22 and Dr hab. Joanna Lisek on March 8

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce that Professor Daniel Grinberg and Dr hab. Joanna Lisek were named the recipients of the Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Award for the year 2019 and 2020, respectively.

AT THE TURNING POINT, the 2021 YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization, to be held online this winter (January 5-22, 2021), offers its most stellar lineup of presenters to date, bringing together public intellectuals from Yale Historian Timothy Snyder to former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Grigory Yavlinsky, along with scholars from leading institutions across the globe, from the Bodleian Library (University of Oxford) to the Met Cloisters.

On Wednesday, November 18, 2020, at 1:00pm (ET), YIVO will host a panel moderated by Jane Ziegelman and featuring chefs Ari Miller and Jeremy Umansky, looking at fermenting and foraging techniques.

On Tuesday, November 10, 2020, at 1:00pm (ET), YIVO will host a digital premiere performance of Joel Engel's "Jewish Folksongs" Volumes I & II, the first classical compositions to employ Yiddish folksongs.

On Wednesday, October 7, 2020, at 1:00pm (ET), YIVO will host Yiddish Children’s Literature Today, featuring a conversation between Miriam Udel, Naomi Seidman, and Jennifer Young, moderated by Rokhl Kafrissen (Tablet Magazine).

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant of $119,433 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through Save America’s Treasures Grant.