News & Features

YIVO’s Academic Advisor & Exhibitions Curator Eddy Portnoy reflects on the inaugural Ukrainian Jewish Literary Tour.

YIVO’s Director of Foundations and Grants, Elina Bloch reflects on the 2019 Lithuania & Poland Study Tour.

Two hundred years ago, Jewish women had to struggle for the right to work as teachers (or even to obtain an education), as attested to by these notes for a study on the subject.

On Wednesday, July 31, 2019, YIVO presents a rehearsed reading of Leon Kobrin’s 1912 play Breach of Promise—a tragicomic slice of tenement life in New York City. 

YIVO’s first feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, Yiddish Wedding Hop: The Archives of Song Collector Ruth Rubin, by YIVO Sound Archivists Eléonore Biezunski and Lorin Sklamberg.

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

Jonathan Brent, the Executive Director and CEO of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, was conferred the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania by H.E. Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has just received the archive of noted historian, scholar, and Holocaust survivor Nachman Blumental.

YIVO announces a new lecture series introducing audiences to some of the breadth and depth of Yiddish civilization in Eastern Europe, New York, and around the world.

On May 24, 2019, Renee Miller, volunteer archivist and a treasured and beloved member of YIVO’s family, passed away after battling cancer.