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

YIVO mourns the passing of longtime and cherished staff member Faige Lederman. We send our deepest condolences and sympathies to her brother, Leibel Lederman, and sister, Frieda Weiss, and their families. Faige worked at YIVO all her life, starting at the young age of 16 years old, and endeared herself to ...

The autobiography of Beba Epstein—written when she was a precocious fifth-grader before World War II—is one of the 170,000 pages of materials discovered in 2017.

The new album from Cantaloupe Music, created by YIVO’s Director of Public Programs Alex Weiser, is comprised of contemporary classical songs that set Yiddish and English poems to music.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) announces the launch of a new online exhibition, Stories from the Archives: Jewish Immigration to America, featuring artifacts from its extensive migration collections.

The President of the Republic of Lithuania H.E. Ms Dalia Grybauskaitė visited the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York.

This spring, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will host its third annual Children’s Day, a day of activity and cultural immersion for children of all ages.

Alex Weiser’s new album, and all the days were purple, explores the question of trying to find meaning amidst life’s transience and tumult, with secular Jewish poetry as a departure point.

A 1902 instruction manual for Jewish farmers.

In October 2018, YIVO welcomed a new addition to its staff, Karolina Ziulkoski, who will serve as Chief Curator of the YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum