News & Features

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, “Everyday People’s Troubles”: A Brif History of Yiddish Advice Radio in the United States, by Hallel Yadin, Archives Associate.

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

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Jewish Children's Literature in Russian and Yiddish, co-presented with the Bodleian Library.

YIVO presents a performance of Joel Engel's Jewish Folksongs Volume III (c. 1920) including 10 Jewish folksongs, dances, and Hasidic nigunim in virtuosic piano arrangements.

We at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research mourn the passing of our dear colleague, Marek Web (1938-2021).

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce its upcoming program, A Taste of Rome’s Historic Jewish Cuisine with celebrated cookbook author Leah Koenig, taking place on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 1:00pm (ET).

List of recipients of YIVO’s 2021-2022 faculty and graduate student fellowships.

YIVO is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Leftists on Left-Wing Antisemitism, featuring a unique panel of four scholars, journalists, and activists on the Left.

YIVO is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Cry, My Heart, Cry: Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive, Vol. 2, celebrating the new album release produced by D. Zisl Slepovitch.

On Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at 1:00pm (EDT), YIVO will host the digital musical performance premiere, Continuing Evolution 2: Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music. This event will feature five world premiere compositions commissioned for the occasion by YIVO.