News & Features

We are most grateful to our members and supporters, whose generous financial support ensured that YIVO was able to continue in its mission to provide enriching content to our global audience. Here are a few highlights from 2023.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce its participation in Carnegie Hall’s Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice festival. The New York City festival will explore one of the most complex and consequential chapters in modern history: Germany’s Weimar Republic of 1919-1933.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, devoted to education and historical truth, has developed a three-part webinar series to explore The Origins and Ideology of Hamas curated by historian Jeffrey Herf and featuring other highly regarded historians, such as Benny Morris and Matthias Küntzel.

Outside media articles from 2024 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

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

Watch Jonathan Brent on CNN, discussing his recent trip to Kyiv to meet with Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine to enter into an agreement with the Library to help preserve and digitize their precious An-sky collection.

The 2024 YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization will be held online this winter (January 9-26, 2024).

On Monday, December 11, 2023 at 7:00pm (ET), the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will host a concert reading of Shir Hashirim: The Song of Love—an operetta by Jewish composers Joseph Rumshinsky and Anshel Shor—performed by students of the Bard Conservatory Vocal Arts Program.

On Monday, December 4, 2023 at 7:00pm (ET), the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will celebrate the launch of Yiddish Voices, an exciting new series showcasing literary works in new English translations.

Listen and learn more about the 1887 lullaby Mayn yingele (My Little Boy) by Morris Rosenfeld, “poet laureate of labor.”