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Welcome to Otwock: A Virtual Visit to the Warsaw Suburb Before the War

July 7, 2026 | 2:00pm ET

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Jews Are Magic

Occult Practices from Palmistry to Professional Psychics

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The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is dedicated to the preservation and study of the history and culture of East European Jewry worldwide. We are the home of the foremost archives and library on this history and the presenter of acclaimed exhibitions, concerts, and lectures. For a century, YIVO has pioneered new forms of Jewish scholarship, research, education, and cultural expression.

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YIVO Mounts New Exhibition

YIVO is delighted to conjure up excitement with a new on-site exhibition, Jews Are Magic: Occult Practices from Palmistry to Professional Psychics, opening to the public on Tuesday, May 26, 2026.

2026-2027 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows

List of recipients of YIVO’s 2026-2027 faculty and graduate student fellowships.

YIVO is Participating in Carnegie Hall's Festival, United in Sound: America at 250

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce its participation in Carnegie Hall’s Nuestros sonidos (Our Sounds) festival.

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The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project is an international project to preserve, digitize, and virtually reunite YIVO’s prewar library and archival collections located in New York City and Vilnius, Lithuania, through a dedicated web portal. The project will also digitally reconstruct the historic, private Strashun Library of Vilna, one of the great prewar libraries of Europe.

This project is a partnership between the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the Lithuanian Central State Archives, the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, and the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, and includes the cataloging, conservation, and digitization of documents and books in both New York and Vilnius.

In May 2017, some 170,000 pages of previously unknown documents, lost to history for almost 70 years, were discovered in Vilnius, significantly expanding the scope of our project.

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