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A Musical Journey from Russia
New York, NY– YIVO and ASJM present: A Musical Journey from Russia, a concert highlighting the work of the Society for Jewish Folk Music on Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 at 6:30pm at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011). The Society for Jewish Folk Music ...
YIVO and Yiddish (1968)
YIVO has been active for decades in the teaching of Yiddish and the documentation of Yiddish culture.
An Evening in Chicago: A 1925 Photo from the Vilna Collections
A photograph from the Esther Rokhl Kaminska Theater Museum provides a glimpse of Jewish life in Chicago in the 1920s.
2016-2017 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows
List of recipients of YIVO’s 2016-2017 faculty and graduate student fellowships.
Scraps of Paper Illuminate Life As It Was Lived
YIVO’s VILBIG collection sheds light on education for the Jewish masses in prewar Eastern Europe.
New York’s Yiddish Theater: Interview with Edna Nahshon
Interview with Edna Nahshon, curator of the Yiddish theater exhibition at the Museum of the City of NY.
Looking back: First YIVO Summer Yiddish program (1968)
YIVO’s intensive Yiddish summer program was founded 48 years ago.
Calculating the Rhythms of Jewish Life
Very few of the Hebrew books in the Strashun Library collection have illustrations. But this one does: beautiful charts for calculating Jewish time.
YIVO’s New Exhibition on Jewish Comedians of the 20th Century
Jerry Lewis, art by Drew Friedman. Courtesy of Drew Friedman. New York, NY (February 11, 2016) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research's newest exhibition, Professional Jokers: Jewish Jesters from the Golden Age of American Comedy. Professional Jokers opens at 6:00 pm on Monday, February 29, at YIVO (located at 15 ...