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List of recipients of YIVO’s 2024-2025 faculty and graduate student fellowships.

Neil W. Levin continues his exploration of Jewish opera under the auspices of his position as Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce its newest on-site exhibition, The Instant Art of Morris Katz, which explores Morris Katz’s background, art, and his unique creative process.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a grant of $314,600 from The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), German Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF), and the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ).

Join the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research on Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 7:00pm for a reading of Tea Arciszewska’s Miryeml, a play about the experiences of children during the pogroms that followed World War I.

Vida Castaline’s oral history, donated to YIVO, is a rare testimony of impoverished and obscure Ukrainian Jews.

Neil W. Levin continues his exploration of Yiddish opera under the auspices of his position as Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music.

On Thursday, March 21, 2024, YIVO will launch the fifth course in the Shine Online Educational Series, Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America. This course, along with all of YIVO’s Shine Online courses, will be free of charge.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to host the launch concert and party celebrating the release of in a dark blue night, the follow-up to Alex Weiser’s Pulitzer Prize nominated debut album and all the days were purple.

Neil W. Levin continues his exploration of Yiddish opera under the auspices of his position as Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music.