2023
NY Jewish Week, A new play tells the true story of a former Hasid who translated the New Testament into Yiddish (December 21, 2023, mention)
Topic » A Very Jewish Christmas
CNN, The rush to save Ukraine's precious Jewish legacy (December 10, 2023)
Topic » YIVO News
Bernardinai, J. Brentas: radikalios kairiosios ir dešiniosios ideologijos yra pagrindinės antisemitizmo kurstytojos (December 20, 2023)
Topic » Ideologies of Hate and Hope in Modern Jewish History Conference
The Forward, The first new full-length American Yiddish drama in decades is set to take the stage (December 15, 2023, mention)
Topic » A Very Jewish Christmas
The Schmooze, Shir Hashirim (The Song of Songs): A Yiddish Operetta (December 10, 2023)
Topic » Shir Hashirim — An Operetta by Rumshinsky and Shor
The Forward, Love triangles and arias abound in this reconstructed 1911 Yiddish comic operetta (December 8, 2023)
Topic » Shir Hashirim — An Operetta by Rumshinsky and Shor
Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, The Antanas Ulpis Humanitarian Award for contribution to the development of relations and understanding between Lithuania and Jews has been established (November 27, 2023)
Topic » Antanas Ulpis Humanitarian Award
The Forward, ?בלוטיקער פֿאָלקלאָר“ – װי אַזױ האָבן ייִדן געזונגען אין אַ צײַט פֿון גזירות און אומקום„ (October 17, 2023, mention)
Topic » YIVO News
Vermont Movement News, Discussion at YIVO of left wing antisemetism (October 17, 2023)
Topic » Antisemitism and the Left
New Jersey Jewish News, Wait! Yiddish in Palestine? Really? (October 5, 2023, picked up by Jewish Standard)
Topic » Palestinian Yiddish: A Look at Yiddish in the Land of Israel Before 1948
I Care If You Listen, Video Premiere: Shepherdess Performs Lainie Fefferman’s “A Sweet & Righteous Soul Gets Drunk On Champagne” (October 4, 2023)
Topic » Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today
JTA, 25 years after opening, Yiddish Book Center overhauls its core exhibit for a wider audience (October 1, 2023, mention)
Topic » Jewish News
JTA, Vilnius is celebrating its 700th anniversary. Lithuanian Jews are commemorating a darker one. (September 24, 2023, mention, picked up by Jewish Exponent)
Topic » YIVO News
Shalom, Il presidente della Lituania rende omaggio a chi salvò i libri del Ghetto di Vilna durante la Shoah (September 22, 2023)
Topic » YIVO News
AJN - Agencia de Noticias, Nausėda JAV sakys kalbą JT Generalinėje asamblėjoje (September 21, 2023)
Topic » YIVO News
TV3, Nausėda JAV sakys kalbą JT Generalinėje asamblėjoje (September 20, 2023, mention, picked up by Jūsų Panevėžys, Kauno diena, Vakary Ekspresas, Verslo žinios, and 15min)
Topic » YIVO News
Etaplius, G. Nausėda JT asamblėjoje kreipėsi į tarptautinę bendruomenę: ragina labiau spausti Rusiją nutraukti karą Ukrainoje (September 20, 2023, mention)
Topic » YIVO News
JTA, In New York, Lithuania’s president honors those who saved Jewish artifacts during and after the Holocaust (September 19, 2023, picked up by Times of Israel, Arutz Sheva, St. Louis Jewish Light, Forward, South Florida Sun Sentinel, Qoshe, and TechJaun)
Topic » YIVO News
Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija, Prezidentas Niujorke atidengė bibliotekininko ir bibliografo Antano Ulpio memorialinę lentelę (September 19, 2023)
Topic » YIVO News
President of the Republic of Lithuania, The President unveiled a memorial plaque to the librarian and bibliographer Antanas Ulpis in New York (September 19, 2023)
Topic » YIVO News
BNN, Commemorative Plaque for Antanas Ulpis Unveiled: Honoring the Preservation of Jewish Literature During WWII (September 19, 2023)
Topic » YIVO News
YNetNews, 'Zionism was a revolution, and revolutions have victims - one of these victims was Yiddish' (September 17, 2023, also in Hebrew)
Topic » Palestinian Yiddish: A Look at Yiddish in the Land of Israel Before 1948
JNS, Exhibit spans 16th-century Jewish maternal guilt-trip to modern Hebraists beating up Yiddishists (September 11, 2023, picked up by Cleveland Jewish News and Columbus Jewish News)
Topic » Palestinian Yiddish: A Look at Yiddish in the Land of Israel Before 1948
Forward, How Yiddish became a ‘foreign language’ in Israel despite being spoken there since the 1400s (September 11, 2023)
Topic » Palestinian Yiddish: A Look at Yiddish in the Land of Israel Before 1948
Cleveland Jewish News, Cleveland Heights woman can’t get enough Yiddish (September 8, 2023)
Topic » Uriel Weinreich Summer Program
Australian Jewish News, YIVO Australian Visit a Success, Youngsters Interested in Yiddish (September 8, 2023)
Topic » YIVO News / Yiddish
Australian Jewish News, The Future (September 7, 2023,mention)
Topic » YIVO News / Yiddish
Haaretz, When Speaking Yiddish Could Get You Beaten Up by Jews in Tel Aviv (September 7, 2023)
Topic » Palestinian Yiddish: A Look at Yiddish in the Land of Israel Before 1948
New York Jewish Week, Israeli Hebrew didn’t kill Yiddish. As a new exhibit in NYC shows, it gave it a new nest to live in. (September 5, 2023, picked up by Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, and Washington Jewish Week)
Topic » Palestinian Yiddish: A Look at Yiddish in the Land of Israel Before 1948
Detroit Jewish News, Multilingual Scholar Graduates from YIVO's Yiddish Program with Unique Linguistic Goals (September 3, 2023)
Topic » Uriel Weinreich Summer Program
Jewish Renaissance, We Wish You a Merry Nitl (Autumn 2023)
Topic » The Yiddishists / YIVO Archives
St. Louis Jewish Light, Jewish Light readers get exclusive first look at new Yiddish exhibit in NYC (August 31, 2023)
Topic » Palestinian Yiddish: A Look at Yiddish in the Land of Israel Before 1948
Jewish Art Journeys, Glimpses of Art at Lublin's Peretz School in the 1930s, by Jennifer Stern (August 27, 2023, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives
The Jewish News of Northern California, Honors, comings and goings, happenings, opportunities — August 2023 (August 25, 2023, mention)
Topic » Uriel Weinreich Summer Program
The Yiddish Voice, Nick Underwood: Yiddish Paris; Dovid Braun: Yiddish Studies at YIVO: an Update (August 23, 2023)
Topic » Max Weinreich Center
The Forward, “חוה לאַפּין: „קענען ייִדיש קען מען נאָר פֿון שלינגען ביכער, פֿון רעדן און פֿון שרײַבן (August 7, 2023)
Topic » Chava Lapin
JNS, After 15 years at YIVO’s helm, Jonathan Brent is bullish on the Jewish future (August 4, 2023, picked up by Cleveland Jewish News, St. Louis Jewish Light, Crescent City Jewish News, and Columbus Jewish News)
Topic » International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, “A Language I Come Home To”: Yiddish in the Jewish Diaspora (August 1, 2023, mention)
Topic » Yiddish
JNS Wire, YIVO’s Summer Program brings together cadre of students from diverse backgrounds (August 1, 2023)
Topic » Uriel Weinreich Summer Program
Tablet Magazine, A Language and a Way of Life (July 27, 2023)
Topic » Shloyshim for Chava Lapin
Jewish Unpacked, Why is Yiddish making a comeback? (July 25, 2023, mention)
Topic » Yiddish
Tablet Magazine, A Yiddish Musical Treasury (July 21, 2023, mention)
Topic » Ruth Rubin’s Legacy of Yiddish Song
Washington Jewish Week, Visitors Get a Taste of Jewish Religion and Culture at Smithsonian Folklife Festival (July 13, 2023)
Topic » Smithsonian Folklife Festival
ListVerse, 10 WWII Discoveries Kept Secret or Hidden for Decades (July 9, 2023)
Topic » YIVO Library and Archives
The Forward, Smithsonian festival to include Yiddish concert, blintzes and pickling workshops (June 30, 2023)
Topic » Smithsonian Folklife Festival
The Forward, This year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival explores the importance of Yiddishkeit in American culture (June 30, 2023)
Topic » Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Smithsonian Magazine, The 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival Explores the Many Ways Americans Express Their Spirituality (June 29, 2023)
Topic » Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Jewish Book Council, The Buried Treasures of the Paper Brigade (June 28, 2023)
Topic » YIVO Archives / Unearthed
The Jewish Chronicle, Quest to discover the lost actress of Vilnius who is full of mystery (June 23, 2023, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives / Unearthed
Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, A Song Still Vital: Preserving and Reviving Yiddish Folk Music (June 20, 2023)
Topic » Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today
The Rebbe, Fire and Ink: Selected Correspondence Between Chaim Grade and the Rebbe (June 2023, mention)
Topics » The Papers of Chaim Grade and Inna Hecker Grade
Tablet Magazine, The Summer of Yiddish Song (June 8, 2023)
Topic » Yiddish Music / A Dying Person (A Goyses) / Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series
JTA, The hora, the hora! How Jewish wedding music got that way (June 5, 2023, picked up by Jerusalem Post and Texas Jewish Post)
Topic » Yiddish to the Core: Wedding Music and Jewish Identity in Postwar New York City
In Geveb, Daughterhood (May 25, 2023, mention)
Topic » Yiddish
Jewish Link of New Jersey, Just Another Extraordinary Week at Yeshivat Frisch (May 24, 2023)
Topic » YIVO Learning and Media Center
Jewish Standard, Not a native speaker — but naturalized (May 16, 2023)
Topic » YIVO News
Jewish Renaissance, Matzah Bakers of the World, Unite! (Spring 2023)
Topic » The Yiddishists / YIVO Archives
The Forward, Dovid Braun is appointed YIVO’s Academic Advisor in Yiddish (May 1, 2023, also in Yiddish)
Topic » YIVO News
Times of Israel, New projects aim to keep Borscht Belt memory alive with historical markers, museum (April 29, 2023, mention)
Topic » Jewish News
Hudson Valley One, New Borscht Belt museum coming to Ellenville (April 28, 2023, mention)
Topic » Jewish News
JNS Wire, YIVO appoints academic advisor in Yiddish language, pedagogy and linguistics (April 26, 2023, picked up by Jewish Ledger)
Topic » YIVO News
Center for Jewish History Blog, “A Very Ticklish Problem”: The AJC Response to the Rosenberg Trial & Execution (April 25, 2023, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives / Jewish History
amNY, Manhattan getting millions in federal grants to boost museum education and research programs (April 21, 2023)
Topic » YIVO News
כאן חדשות, לוחמי הנייר: היהודים מגטו וילנה שהצילו את אוצרות העם היהודי (April 18, 2023)
Topic » YIVO Archives / Paper Brigade
El Pais, Vilnius a través de la memoria de la Brigada de Papel y los libros salvados de las garras de los nazis (April 15, 2023)
Topic » YIVO Archives / Paper Brigade
Euro ES Euro, Vilnius through the memory of The Paper Brigade and the books saved from the clutches of the Nazis | The traveler (April 15, 2023)
Topic » YIVO Archives / Paper Brigade
The Forward, What Ben Platt learned reading Leo Frank’s letters (April 10, 2023)
Topic » YIVO Archives
JLife, Solving a Family Mystery (April 2, 2023, mentioned)
Topic » Unearthed / YIVO Archives
Campaign Against Antisemitism, Podcast Against Antisemitism | S3 E22 (March 23, 2023)
Topic » YIVO Archives / YIVO History
Campaign Against Antisemitism, Executive Director and CEO of YIVO Jonathan Brent exposes the lie that Jews went “like sheep to the slaughter” during the Holocaust (March 23, 2023)
Topic » YIVO Archives / YIVO History
Jewish Link, A Journey to the Past (March 23, 2023, mentioned)
Topic » Unearthed / YIVO Archives
MarketWatch, The Jerry Seinfeld effect? Jewish people are viewed most favorably among U.S. religious groups, a new survey says (March 23, 2023, mention)
Topic » Antisemitism
The Jewish Standard, ‘Refugees Together’ (March 16, 2023, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives
JTA, My grandmother was a ‘Sherlock Holmes of Yiddish song,’ but she couldn’t solve the mystery of antisemitism (March 8, 2023, mention)
Topic » Chana Mlotek: Celebrating a Life of Yiddish Song
Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija, ‘Even the fireplace was full of books’. Digitised archive to help rediscover Nobel-nominated Litvak writer (March 19, 2023, also in Lithuanian)
Topics » The Papers of Chaim Grade and Inna Hecker Grade
Jewish News, Millions of Bund pages to be digitised for posterity (March 9, 2023)
Topic » The Jewish Labor and Political Archive
JTA, YIVO will digitize a trove of Jewish leftist history (March 8, 2023, picked up by Cleveland Jewish News, YNetNews, and Jewish Post and News)
Topic » The Jewish Labor and Political Archive
The New York Times, In the Papers of Yiddish Novelist Chaim Grade, Clues to His Lesser Fame (March 6, 2023, picked up by ArtDaily)
Topics » The Papers of Chaim Grade and Inna Hecker Grade
In geveb, YIVO Finds More Archival Documents in Biden Home (March 4, 2023, Purim parody)
Topic » YIVO Archives
New York Jewish Week, March comes in with a roar of new Yiddish music (March 3, 2023, picked up by Jewish Journal, The Jerusalem Post, and WBGO)
Topic » Yiddish Music / Chana Mlotek: Celebrating a Life of Yiddish Song
The Borscht Belt Tattler, Eddy Portnoy | YIVO (February 27, 2023, podcast)
Topic » Jewish History / YIVO Archives
The Forward, YIVO to digitize millions of documents from Jewish Labor Bund (February 22, 2023)
Topic » The Jewish Labor and Political Archive
Jewish Renaissance, The digitisation of a 20th-century legend (February 20, 2023)
Topics » The Papers of Chaim Grade and Inna Hecker Grade
Hyperallergic, Shalom and Pass the Joint (February 13, 2023)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis
JNS, Writings of notable Yiddish novelist known for ‘moral intensity’ now available online (February 10, 2023, picked up by Cleveland Jewish News)
Topics » The Papers of Chaim Grade and Inna Hecker Grade
Bet Magazine Mosaico, L’intero archivio di Chaim Grade digitalizzato e disponibile online (February 8, 2023)
Topics » The Papers of Chaim Grade and Inna Hecker Grade
San Diego Jewish World, Digitization of the Papers of Chaim Grade, Inna Hecker Grade Now Publicly Available (February 6, 2023, also in Diario Judio and Jewish Websight)
Topics » The Papers of Chaim Grade and Inna Hecker Grade
JTA, YIVO digitizes writer Chaim Grade’s archive, a Yiddish treasure with a soap opera backstory (February 5, 2023, picked up by Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, Mosaic Magazine, Cleveland Jewish News, Jewish Journal, Baltimore Jewish Times, Jewish Exponent, American Israelite, The Forward, The Forverts, Radio JAI, and Bharat Times)
Topics » The Papers of Chaim Grade and Inna Hecker Grade
Tablet Magazine, Lithuanian Time Travel (January 30, 2023, mention)
Topics » 700 Years of Vilnius, A City of Translation / History of YIVO
Tablet Magazine, The Legend of Max Weinreich (January 27, 2023)
Topics » History of YIVO / Yiddish
Sapir, The Jewish Future Needs Yiddish (Winter 2023)
Topics » and all the days were purple / Yiddish
I24 News, New UN Exhibit Tells Story of Aftermath of Holocaust (January 26, 2023)
Topic » After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps
JNS, Exhibit on displaced persons camps opens at UN in New York (January 26, 2023)
Topic » After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps
Haaretz, New Exhibit Shatters Myths About Jewish Life in Displaced Persons Camps (January 17, 2023)
Topic » After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps
Portland State University Judaic Studies, New Exhibit Shatters Myths About Jewish Life in Displaced Persons Camps (January 17, 2023, Instagram)
Topic » After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps
JNS, New exhibit on DP camps showcases ‘extraordinary energy’ of the Jewish people (January 13, 2023, picked up by Cleveland Jewish News and Akron Jewish News)
Topic » After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps
Hadassah, After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps (January 12, 2023, Instagram)
Topic » After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps
New York Jewish Week, U.N. exhibit remembers when the world turned its back on stateless Jewish refugees (January 10, 2023, picked up by Times of Israel, Jewish Journal, Cleveland Jewish News, Jerusalem Post, The Forward, Arutz Sheva, Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, Baltimore Jewish Times, Intermountain Jewish News, Washington Jewish Week, Heritage Florida Jewish News, and Ynetnews)
Topic » After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps
The Forward, After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps (January 6, 2023, Instagram)
Topic » After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps
Jewish Standard, Coming back to life (January 5, 2023, picked up by New Jersey Jewish News)
Topic » After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps
NY Jewish Week, On stage and in the classroom, Mikhl Yashinsky is stoking the flame of the Yiddish revival (January 4, 2023, mention, picked up by Times of Israel and Cleveland Jewish News)
Topic » Yiddish
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