News & Features

This spring, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will host its third annual Children’s Day, a day of activity and cultural immersion for children of all ages.

Alex Weiser’s new album, and all the days were purple, explores the question of trying to find meaning amidst life’s transience and tumult, with secular Jewish poetry as a departure point.

A 1902 instruction manual for Jewish farmers.

In October 2018, YIVO welcomed a new addition to its staff, Karolina Ziulkoski, who will serve as Chief Curator of the YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum

YIVO is thrilled to be a recipient of the 2018 Signature Grant from the Covenant Foundation for the development of its fourth online course.

Thanks to our incredible donors, YIVO has been able to accomplish many great things this year. Here are some of our favorites.

Beginning this January, the UK-based Jewish Renaissance will be feature a new series in their quarterly magazine that delves into the treasures of the YIVO Archives.

YIVO presents a first of its kind conference, Yiddish Anarchism: New Scholarship on a Forgotten Tradition, highlighting emerging new scholarship on the forgotten world of Yiddish-speaking anarchists.

Outside media articles from 2019 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

Enjoy a special look into the Ruth Rubin archive with these songs.