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YIVO Opens In-House Digital Lab: First Collection Digitized

5/30/2019

YIVO opened its first in-house digital lab to coordinate the digitization, online accessibility, and digital preservation of the remaining collections of the Edward Blank Vilna Online Collections Project, as well as all future projects.

The Third Annual Carnival of the Big Stick

5/20/2019

What sort of information can be gleaned from an old program brochure from 1921?

YIVO Presents an Evening of Hebrew Song

5/15/2019

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is proud to present an evening devoted to the classic treasures of secular Hebrew song and to the poetry that has inspired the writing of these songs for more than a century.

YIVO presents a concert on secular sacred music

5/7/2019

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents for the first time a concert on secular sacred music featuring performances of two choral masterworks, Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel and David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion.

Book of Doubt / Book of Faith: A New Secular Sacred Work

5/6/2019

Composer Adam Roberts discusses the inspiration for and creation of his new secular sacred work, commissioned for YIVO’s upcoming concert.

2019-2020 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows

5/1/2019

List of recipients of YIVO’s 2019-2020 faculty and graduate student fellowships.

The YIVO Institute Launches New Exhibition on Yiddish Typewriters

4/29/2019

YIVO’s newest exhibition, Rise of the Yiddish Machines: The Typewriter and Yiddish Literature, features rare, vintage Yiddish typewriters, some of them more than a century old. Also on view will be original typescripts by dozens of famous Yiddish writers.

Father Desbois Discusses Extensive Work Documenting the Secret Procedures of Genocide

4/18/2019

World-renowned historian and human-rights activist Father Patrick Desbois will speak at YIVO on Monday May 6, 2019, 7:00pm.

Party at the Seder

4/16/2019

A long-lost Passover song focuses on food and flirtation.

In Dialogue Series Concludes with Daylong Conference

4/16/2019

The 2018-2019 In Dialogue: Polish-Jewish Relations series concludes with a daylong conference that brings together top scholars to discuss Polish-Jewish relations after World War II.