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The Jury of the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Award is pleased to announce that Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota was named the recipient of the Karski Award for the year 2018.

Shir Hashirim, the Song of Songs, is an ecstatic, erotic book, found in the Hebrew Bible. It has been a source of inspiration for many composers throughout history from the Yiddish theater to the Society for Jewish Folk Music, and beyond.

Irene Kronhill Pletka, Vice Chairman of the YIVO Board, was honored at the 2018 Gala and pledged a $1 million gift to kick start support for the Bund Digitization Project.

A short German typescript by Martin Buber, signed, with handwritten corrections.

Tracing a woman’s transnational educational path in the twentieth century through materials donated to the YIVO Archives.

New York, NY – This fall, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will explore the complicated history of Polish-Jewish relations. It will partner with Fordham University and Columbia University for the “In Dialogue: Polish-Jewish Relations” series, and will present Dariusz Stola, the director of POLIN Museum. This year, tensions between the ...

A 17th-century book by the chronicler of the Khmel’nytski Uprising, written before he himself became a refugee.

YIVO presents historian and author Adam Michnik who will talk about the history of antisemitism and efforts to resist it in 20th century Poland. Introducing Michnik will be Andrzej Rojek, Chairman of the Board for the Jan Karski Educational Foundation. 

A Yiddish hiking manual from 1927 provides detailed instructions on how to take children on nature walks.

Eddy Portnoy reflects on YIVO’s inaugural Literary Tour of Jewish Life in Galicia.