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Returning for its fifth year, YIVO’s Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series introduces audiences to the breadth and depth of Yiddish civilization in Eastern Europe, New York, and around the world.

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

YIVO is delighted to announce that David Braun has been named by the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies as the Academic Advisor in Yiddish Language, Pedagogy, and Linguistics.

List of recipients of YIVO’s 2023-2024 faculty and graduate student fellowships.

Eighty years have passed since the day beleaguered, starving, desperate, isolated, and doomed Jewish inmates in the hell of the Warsaw Ghetto chose to fight their German oppressors.

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YIVO and the National Library of Israel (NLI) are delighted to announce the completion of the digitization of the Papers of Chaim Grade and Inna Hecker Grade. Making this collection available online will enrich the lives of lovers of Jewish and Yiddish literature throughout the world.

YIVO is delighted to announce the initiation of a new project to digitize its Jewish Labor and Political Archive. This will be an eight-year project to conserve, process, digitize, and make available online free-of-charge its collections documenting Jewish political, labor, and social movements in the United States and Europe from 1870 to 1992.

YIVO is pleased to announce several grants recently received to support a number of key initiatives and works.

Among the materials being digitized as part of the Jewish Labor and Political Archive is the final letter of Shmuel Zygielbojm, a member of the Bund’s Central Committee.