News & Features

YIVO is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Sutzkever Essential Prose, celebrating Zackary Sholem Berger’s new book translating prose by famed Yiddish poet, partisan, and holocaust survivor Avrom Sutzkever.

To commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19, Neil W. Levin—YIVO's Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music—has written a comprehensive article for us, titled: MUSICAL SHADOWS OF THE WARSAW GHETTO—A "New Haggada" and the Sanctity of Memory.

Jonathan Brent (YIVO’s Executive Director and CEO) and Howard Spiegler (co-chair of Herrick, Feinstein LLP’s Art Law Group) discuss the quest to recover and preserve the cultural treasures lost and stolen during the Holocaust and post-World War II.

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Voices, How the Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl Inspired an Exhibition, by Karolina Ziulkoski, Director of Digital and Chief Curator.

The Center for Jewish History and its partner organizations—The American Jewish Historical Society, The American Sephardi Federation, The Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research—protest the recent trial in Poland of the eminent scholars, Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski.

This Passover, enjoy these recipes from 1938 Vilna to 2021 New York.

You could be part of a documentary film about Joyva.

New works contribute a fresh perspective to these traditions and offer an opportunity for contemporary composers to musically think through the meaning and relevance of the past.

Scholars Jan Grabowksi and Barbara Engelking were found guilty in Poland for their book documenting the range of Polish behavior towards Jews during the Holocaust. Prof. Grabowski, in conversation with journalist Masha Gessen, will discuss his response to the recent verdict as well as its political and scholarly implications.

Responding to unprecedented growth in demand for Yiddish classes over the last 12 months, YIVO is announcing a variety of forthcoming Yiddish offerings.