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Neil W. Levin continues his exploration of Jewish opera under the auspices of his position as Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has received $54,000 from The Leona Zweig Rosenberg Trust to support summer Yiddish study at the 2025 YIVO-Bard Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture.

We are most grateful to our members and supporters, whose generous financial support ensured that YIVO was able to continue in its mission to provide enriching content to our global audience. Here are some highlights from 2024.

Outside media articles from 2025 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

The Board of Directors and staff of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research express our deep sorrow at the passing of YIVO volunteer Estelle M. Guzik.

Neil W. Levin continues his exploration of Jewish opera under the auspices of his position as Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music.

The 2024 YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization will be held online this winter (January 7-24, 2025).

YIVO will host the New York premiere of Burning Off the Page, about Russian-born American Yiddish poet and fiction writer Celia Dropkin (1887–1956). The screening will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Eli Gorn, Professor Agnieszka Legutko, and poet Edward Hirsch.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to host the US premiere of Proof of Identity, a documentary exploring Holocaust memory and Jewish identity in Poland today.

See the seventeenth article in the Jewish Renaissance column The Yiddishists, delving into the YIVO Archives.