News & Features

AT THE TURNING POINT, the 2021 YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization, to be held online this winter (January 5-22, 2021), offers its most stellar lineup of presenters to date, bringing together public intellectuals from Yale Historian Timothy Snyder to former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Grigory Yavlinsky, along with scholars from leading institutions across the globe, from the Bodleian Library (University of Oxford) to the Met Cloisters.

On Wednesday, November 18, 2020, at 1:00pm (ET), YIVO will host a panel moderated by Jane Ziegelman and featuring chefs Ari Miller and Jeremy Umansky, looking at fermenting and foraging techniques.

On Tuesday, November 10, 2020, at 1:00pm (ET), YIVO will host a digital premiere performance of Joel Engel's "Jewish Folksongs" Volumes I & II, the first classical compositions to employ Yiddish folksongs.

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, How Jewish Newspaper Editors Flipped Anti-Semitic Imagery into the First Yiddish Cartoon, by Eddy Portnoy, Academic Advisor & Exhibitions Curator.

May 31-June 1 2021 will mark the hundredth anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre, a vicious event in which mobs of white residents wielding weapons attacked black residents and businesses in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In memory of this somber occasion and the racially motivated violence that erupted in America in the early twentieth century more broadly, YIVO and In geveb are joining together in an effort to make Yiddish sources about these events more accessible to students, teachers, and researchers.

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

On Wednesday, October 7, 2020, at 1:00pm (ET), YIVO will host Yiddish Children’s Literature Today, featuring a conversation between Miriam Udel, Naomi Seidman, and Jennifer Young, moderated by Rokhl Kafrissen (Tablet Magazine).

After nearly a century of an extraordinary life, Ray (Chayele) Porus Palevsky died peacefully on September 20, the second day of Rosh Hashanah, surrounded by the loving care of River Garden staff and family. She has left a profound mark on all of us at YIVO and on all who had the honor to have met or known her.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant of $119,433 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through Save America’s Treasures Grant.

Here’s a roundup of our recent philosophy and politics-related programs.