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YIVO Cernia Slovin Online Museum Completes Ambassador Program
YIVO recently completed an Ambassador Program focused on expanding knowledge of the Online Museum and its resources, introducing and encouraging use of the museum and its resources to educators, and creating related middle and high school lesson plans.
The YIVO Learning and Media Center Hosts Its First Pilot Programs
This spring, the YIVO Learning and Media Center (YLMC) held pilot programs with the Frisch School (a modern Orthodox school) and the Riverdale Country School (a pre-K through grade 12 independent school).
YIVO Mounts New Exhibition | Palestinian Yiddish: A Look at Yiddish in the Land of Israel Before 1948
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the opening of its newest on-site exhibition on September 5, 2023, Palestinian Yiddish: A Look at Yiddish in the Land of Israel before 1948.
YIVO's Summer Program Brings Together a Unique Cadre of Students from Diverse Backgrounds
On Friday, July 28, 2023, 82 students graduated from The Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, the world’s longest-running Yiddish summer program.
YIVO Receives $350,000 Grant to Digitize Four Collections Focused on Jewish Immigrant Involvement in the Labor Movement in the United States
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for $349,524 to process and digitize four collections focused on the Jewish immigrant involvement in the labor movement in the United States.
The First Yiddish Opera
Neil W. Levin, YIVO's Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music, explores the first Yiddish opera, King Ahaz (Melekh Akhaz), composed in 1911 by Samuel Alman.
YIVO Brings Yiddish to the 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
YIVO is participating in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which will take place June 29-July 4 and July 6-9, 2023 at the National Mall in Washington, DC.
A Song Still Vital: Preserving and Reviving Yiddish Folk Music
YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, A Song Still Vital: Preserving and Reviving Yiddish Folk Music, by Alex Weiser, Director of Public Programs.
YIVO Mourns the Passing of Chava Lapin
The Board of Directors and staff of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research express our deep sorrow at the passing of our dear colleague Chava Lapin z”l.
YIVO's Jonathan Brent Speaks at International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's Working Group Panel
On June 12, 2023, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Executive Director and CEO Jonathan Brent participated in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) first plenary of the year.