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Recent Accession The YIVO Archives is pleased to announce that we are in the process of accessioning the records of Linke Fligl. Linke Fligl was a queer Jewish chicken farm and cultural organizing project based in Millerton, NY. It was founded in 2016 and was sunset in 2022. You can learn ...

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 2022.

YIVO is delighted to announce a $2.5 million grant from the Seedlings Foundation to support two important projects: the creation of a YIVO Learning and Media Center (YLMC), and the digitization of an important part of YIVO’s Holocaust collection, the largest collection of Holocaust materials in the world outside of Yad Vashem in Israel.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce the addition of Ambassador Eric Rubin to its Board of Directors.

YIVO is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition, After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The exhibition will run from January 10 – February 23, 2023.

Outside media articles from 2023 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research announces a grant award totaling $80,000 from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support the recovery of the nonprofit arts and culture sector.

The Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Award Committee, comprised of Jonathan Brent (Executive Director of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research), Monika Krawczyk (director of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute), Ewa Geller, Tadeusz Epsztein and Andrzej Żbikowski, has awarded the prize for the year 2022 to Professor Anna Landau-Czajka.

The 2023 YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization will be held online this winter (January 10-27, 2023).

On Sunday, November 13, 2022, the story of YIVO, the Paper Brigade, and the rescue of Jewish artifacts and culture was featured in a segment on 60 Minutes on CBS.