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YIVO's Summer Program helped Graeme build a sense of community.

YIVO was invited to participate in the prestigious Oxford Literary Festival.

The YIVO Archives has successfully launched a new paid Research Assistant program which pairs patrons with one of YIVO’s highly skilled researchers.

The YIVO Archives has just completed a project to catalog 500 collections that were donated over the past several years.

On Friday, July 29, 2022, 76 students graduated from The Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, the world’s longest-running Yiddish summer program.

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

YIVO’s Director of Public Programs, Alex Weiser, wrote an article for the Passport section of the UK-based Jewish Renaissance’s Summer 2022 issue about Yiddish powers who moved from Europe to New York in the early 20th century.

Returning for its fourth year, YIVO’s Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series introduces audiences to the breadth and depth of Yiddish civilization in Eastern Europe, New York, and around the world.

YIVO Executive Director & CEO Jonathan Brent visited Vilnius, Lithuania in May 2022 to participate in two important events: the opening of the 5th World Litvak Congress, and the opening of the Lithuanian Art Centre TARTLE’s latest exhibit.

On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 1:00pm (ET), the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents Are We in the Midst of a Yiddish Renaissance? Join YIVO on Zoom for a conversation about the Yiddish world today.