YIVO Press Releases

YIVO Commemorates the Jewish Community of Vilna

9/5/2024

On Sunday, September 29, 2024 at 1:00pm (ET), the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will host its annual Nusakh Vilne Memorial commemorating the Jewish community of Vilna – the birth place of YIVO.

YIVO Hosts Festival and Conference Dedicated to the Cultural Achievementsof Ex-Orthodox Jews

8/15/2024

On September 15-16, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will host After Orthodoxy: Cultural Creativity and the Break with Tradition, a conference and festival organized by “Off the Derech” (OTD) Jews (off the Orthodox path) and allies who have exited other strict religious communities.

ChaiFlicks and YIVO Institute Launch Content Partnership

8/5/2024

ChaiFlicks, the world’s leading streaming platform for Jewish storytelling, has entered into a content partnership with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

YIVO Mounts New Exhibition

6/3/2024

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) is pleased to announce a new on-site exhibition, opening to the public on Monday, June 17, 2024, with an opening event. It will be on view through the fall.

YIVO Mounts New Exhibition: The Instant Art of Morris Katz

4/18/2024

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce its newest on-site exhibition, The Instant Art of Morris Katz, which explores Morris Katz’s background, art, and his unique creative process.

YIVO Receives a $270,000+ Grant for the Largest Archival Digitization Project in its History – the Jewish Labor and Political Archives Digitization Project

4/17/2024

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a grant of $314,600 from The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), German Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF), and the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ).

YIVO Presents the Newly Translated Miryeml

3/26/2024

Join the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research on Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 7:00pm for a reading of Tea Arciszewska’s Miryeml, a play about the experiences of children during the pogroms that followed World War I.

YIVO’s Newest Online Course, Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America, Launches March 21

3/7/2024

On Thursday, March 21, 2024, YIVO will launch the fifth course in the Shine Online Educational Series, Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America. This course, along with all of YIVO’s Shine Online courses, will be free of charge.

YIVO Celebrates the Release of Alex Weiser's Newest Album, in a dark blue night

3/5/2024

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to host the launch concert and party celebrating the release of in a dark blue night, the follow-up to Alex Weiser’s Pulitzer Prize nominated debut album and all the days were purple.

YIVO is Participating in Carnegie Hall’s Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice festival

1/24/2024

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce its participation in Carnegie Hall’s Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice festival. The New York City festival will explore one of the most complex and consequential chapters in modern history: Germany’s Weimar Republic of 1919-1933.