News & Features

Selections from The Polish Jewish Observer, providing insight into the lives of Polish and other European Jews during World War II.

YIVO recently acquired the collection of Noami Aleh-Leaf Halpern, whose dance career spanned seven decades.

YIVO is one of thirteen partner organizations around New York City joining Carnegie Hall in celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.

Thanks to our incredible donors, YIVO has been able to accomplish many great things over the past decade. Here are some of our favorites.

YIVO was recently featured in Buzzfeed’s JPG Newsletter, sent out on December 22, 2019. The newsletter is a roundup of “the internet’s most powerful photographs.”

YIVO congratulates the winners and finalists of the 2019 National Jewish Book Awards.

The Polish Jewish Observer represents a window into the (often unfulfilled) hopes and (justifiable) apprehensions of Polish and other European Jews in Britain during World War II.

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

Outside media articles from 2020 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

Celebrate Khanike/Chanukah/Hanukkah by making potato latkes using this recipe found in Love and Knishes, a 1956 book from the YIVO Library.