News & Features

On Wednesday July 13th, noted academic Ken Frieden (Syracuse University) will be appearing at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011) at 6:00pm to talk about the centrality of translation to the emergence of modern Jewish literature.

The Jury of the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Award is pleased to announce that Prof. Ewa Geller of Warsaw, Poland was named the recipient of the Karski Award for the year 2016.

YIVO mourns the passing of Fira Bramson (Estera Bramson-Alperniene), longtime librarian at the Jewish section of the National Library of Lithuania and lifelong friend of YIVO.

Uriel Weinreich, the famed linguist and lexicographer, died young.

Fragments of the records of the Nazi agency charged with looting Jewish cultural treasures can be found among YIVO’s recovered collections in Vilnius.

A new book explores the prominent role played by Jews in photography in Britain.

For Russian Heritage Month, YIVO and the Russian American Foundation host a two-night film festival featuring documentaries depicting the era of the Russian cultural migration and the people who defined it.

The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania has awarded 30,000 Euros for work in Lithuania for the Vilna Collections Project.

Today's episode was originally broadcast on March 24, 1968. Host Luba Condell is joined by Ezekiel Lifschutz for a talk about Abraham Goldfaden (considered the “father of Yiddish theater”). Condell and Lifschutz trace the origins of Yiddish theater in the purim-shpil (Purim play) and its development into full-scale theater productions. ...

A German-Hebrew bible becomes a tool in the hands of maskilim, reformist activists of the Haskalah.