News & Features

Senator Dick Durbin is receiving YIVO’s Founders Award for his role in preserving the nearly-destroyed legacy of the rich and vibrant Jewish culture in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Kids, parents, and grandparents will experience the delightful diversity of Jewish culture from countries around the world in this Purim-themed March Mash-Up of family fun.

As the Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar, Mr. Berman will teach a public evening class, “Jewish Anarchism: A History & Present-Day Reflections,” and present a public lecture, “The Unknown and Heroic Anarchist Struggle Against Communism.”

Going boldly where no Jewish museums have gone before, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Center for Jewish History are pleased to announce the launch of their joint exhibition, “Jews in Space: Members of the Tribe in Orbit.”

Jonathan Brent presents “Rare Works and the Reclamation of the Cultural History of European Jews” to Ezra-Habonim, the Niles Township Jewish Cong.

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

Outside media articles from 2018 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

The little-known history of the pogroms of the Russian Civil War.

The Jury of the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Award is pleased to announce that Dr. Eleonora Bergman and Dr. Tadeusz Epsztein of Warsaw, Poland were named the recipients of the Karski Award for the year 2017.

“There’s no such thing as Jewish music,” claims Neil Levin, music scholar and the Artistic Director of the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music. Levin argues that the music he studies and champions is “music of the Jewish experience.”