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The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has completed the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project (EBYVOC), a historic 7-year, $7 million initiative to process, conserve and digitize YIVO’s divided prewar library and archival collections. Through the Project, these materials have been digitally reunited through a dedicated web portal, making them accessible to a worldwide audience for the first time.

Outside media articles from 2022 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

The 2022 YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization, to be held online this winter (January 4-21, 2022), offers a diverse lineup of presenters from around the world.

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, The Modern Potato Latke Was Not Inevitable, by Jane Tuszynski, Program Coordinator.

For the fourth year in a row, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will delve into how Jewish culture developed around Christmas.

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

The Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Award Committee, comprised of Jonathan Brent (Executive Director of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research), Monika Krawczyk (director of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute), Ewa Geller, Tadeusz Epsztein and Andrzej Żbikowski, has awarded the prize for the year 2021 to Professor Jan Doktór.

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, Di Goldene Land: Yiddish Songs of the American Dream and a Bitter Reality, by Alex Weiser Director of Public Programs.

This fall, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will be premiering two Sidney Krum Young Artists Concerts featuring Hebrew and Yiddish folksongs from the 1920s and 1930s.