YIVO Press Releases

YIVO is pleased to announce Fantastic Journeys, a free new online course taught by Executive Director Jonathan Brent, starting April 20, 2020.

All of YIVO’s online courses are free effective today. As restrictions continue to be imposed to help mitigate the spread of COVID19, “YIVO wants to help keep our spirits lifted and provide content to sustain our minds and soul.”

On Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 7:00pm. YIVO will host Why the Far Right Kills, a discussion between researcher Chip Berlet and journalist Talia Lavin, exploring why the far right political faction, compared to others, is so violent—and what drives them to kill again and again?

More than 150 people attended YIVO’s gala honoring award-winning documentary filmmaker Roberta Grossman and leading Holocaust and Jewish history scholar Dr. Samuel Kassow.

The recently appointed President of the Republic of Lithuania H.E. Gitanas Nausėda and First Lady Diana Nausėdienė visited the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York.

On Wednesday, July 31, 2019, YIVO presents a rehearsed reading of Leon Kobrin’s 1912 play Breach of Promise—a tragicomic slice of tenement life in New York City. 

Jonathan Brent, the Executive Director and CEO of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, was conferred the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania by H.E. Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has just received the archive of noted historian, scholar, and Holocaust survivor Nachman Blumental.

YIVO announces a new lecture series introducing audiences to some of the breadth and depth of Yiddish civilization in Eastern Europe, New York, and around the world.

YIVO opened its first in-house digital lab to coordinate the digitization, online accessibility, and digital preservation of the remaining collections of the Edward Blank Vilna Online Collections Project, as well as all future projects.