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YIVO’s newest exhibition, Rise of the Yiddish Machines: The Typewriter and Yiddish Literature, features rare, vintage Yiddish typewriters, some of them more than a century old. Also on view will be original typescripts by dozens of famous Yiddish writers.

World-renowned historian and human-rights activist Father Patrick Desbois will speak at YIVO on Monday May 6, 2019, 7:00pm.

A long-lost Passover song focuses on food and flirtation.

The 2018-2019 In Dialogue: Polish-Jewish Relations series concludes with a daylong conference that brings together top scholars to discuss Polish-Jewish relations after World War II.

See the second article in the Jewish Renaissance column The Yiddishists, delving into the YIVO Archives.

YIVO mourns the passing of longtime and cherished staff member Faige Lederman. We send our deepest condolences and sympathies to her brother, Leibel Lederman, and sister, Frieda Weiss, and their families. Faige worked at YIVO all her life, starting at the young age of 16 years old, and endeared herself to ...

The autobiography of Beba Epstein—written when she was a precocious fifth-grader before World War II—is one of the 170,000 pages of materials discovered in 2017.

The new album from Cantaloupe Music, created by YIVO’s Director of Public Programs Alex Weiser, is comprised of contemporary classical songs that set Yiddish and English poems to music.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) announces the launch of a new online exhibition, Stories from the Archives: Jewish Immigration to America, featuring artifacts from its extensive migration collections.

The President of the Republic of Lithuania H.E. Ms Dalia Grybauskaitė visited the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York.