2022

JTA, Meet the rabbi who is helping bring legal cannabis to New York (December 28, 2022, mention)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Moment Magazine, The Seifter Menorah: Fingerprints From a Vanished World (December 16, 2022)
Topic » YIVO Archives

The Australian Jewish News, ‘Haunting’ journey through a shared past (December 15, 2022)
Topic » Kraków – Wrocław – Berlin Study Tour

Reboot, Yiddish Folksong: Past, Present & Future (December 12, 2022)
Topic » Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today

60 Minutes, The Paper Brigade: Rescuing cultural artifacts during and after WWII (November 13, 2022)
Topic » YIVO Archives / The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

JNS, Jewish composer Hugo Kauder remembered at Carnegie Hall (November 11, 2022)
Topic » Hugo Kauder

Australian Jewish News, YIVO summer program success (October 31, 2022)
Topic » The Uriel Weinreich Summer Program

The Washington Post, The pandemic and apps are fueling a surge of interest in Yiddish (September 30, 2022)
Topic » Yiddish / The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

The Jewish Standard, ‘Yiddish is a really cool language’ (September 29, 2022)
Topic » The Uriel Weinreich Summer Program

The Jewish Ledger, Reclaiming European Jewish Life: A Personal Journal (September 20, 2022)
Topic » Kraków – Wrocław – Berlin Study Tour

The Media Line, Finding Home: in the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers With Jill Culiner (September 21, 2022, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives

The Jewish Standard, ‘Understanding where we come from’ (September 14, 2022, also in New Jersey Jewish News)
Topic » Kraków – Wrocław – Berlin Study Tour

Psychoactive, Eddy Portnoy on Jews and Cannabis (August 11, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Jewish Renaissance, TS Eliot's Kosher Bedbugs (Summer 2022)
Topic » The Yiddishists / YIVO Archives

Metropolitan Archivist, Reflections on the Role of Children in the Archival Record (July 26, 2022)
Topic » YIVO Archives

Weekly Unscrolled Torah Portion, D’varim (July 16, 2022)
Topic » YIVO Archives

In Geveb, Final Projects (July 13, 2022, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives

Tablet Magazine, Yiddish Folk Song in Classical Music (June 24, 2022)
Topic » Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today

Tablet Magazine, Tevye der Shvartzer Khazn (June 17, 2022)
Topic » YIVO Archives

JTA, The SpongeBob SquarePants theme song is now in Yiddish (June 14, 2022, picked up by Jerusalem Post, The Detroit Jewish News, Sun Sentinel, The Jewish Standard, Diario Judio, The Forward, and Times of Israel)
Topic » Yiddish

Forbes, Stuck For A Cool Father’s Day Gift Idea? Think Cannabis. (June 13, 2022, mention, picked up by Canada Express News)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Leaf Nation, Kosher Kush: The History of Jews and Cannabis (June 1, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

WBGO, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in Manhattan presents a new exhibit on Jews and Cannabis (May 17, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Tablet Magazine, Seeing Green (May 13, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Canvas,  The People of the Bong: “Jews and Cannabis” at YIVO (May 12, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Jewish Standard, Reviving forgotten Yiddish folk songs (May 11, 2022, picked up by New Jersey Jewish News)
Topic » Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today

Times of Israel, Is weed the Chosen People’s drug of choice? These artifacts suggest it may be (May 11, 2022, picked up by 420 Magazine)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Washington Jewish Week, Jewish thinkers split among ethics of cannabis use (May 11, 2022, mention)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Wondering Jew, Episode 73: Am Yisrael High on Tropicana Cherry (May 10, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

San Diego Jewish World, Jewish Trivia Quiz: Laws & Judaism (May 9, 2022, mention)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Haaretz, Jews and Joints- How the People of the Book Came to Love Marijuana (May 5, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Algemeiner, ‘Am Yisrael High’: The Hidden History of Jews and Cannabis (May 5, 2022, picked up by USSA News)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

High Times, Story of Jews and Cannabis at YIVO Opens in New York Tomorrow (May 4, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

The Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, 613 or 420? Jewish Thinkers Split Among Ethics of Cannabis Use (May 4, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Gothamist, Menorah bongs and Talmudic toking: The secret history of Judaism and cannabis (May 4, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

The Forward, The history of Jews and marijuana goes back a lot farther than you think (May 3, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

JTA via NY Jewish Week, The straight dope: YIVO’s new exhibit is all about Jews and weed (May 1, 2022, picked up by The Jerusalem Post, Cleveland Jewish News, and St. Louis Jewish Light)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

JWeekly, ‘Am Yisrael High’: Jewish cannabis connection examined in Berkeley (April 29, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Tablet Magazine, Encyclopedic Knowledge (April 29, 2022, mention)
Topic » YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

The Jewish Standard, ‘Am Yisrael High’ (April 27, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Benzinga, Am Yisrael High: The Story Of Jews And Cannabis, Exhibition Opening May 5 (April 26, 2022, picked up by Extroverting)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Financial Assets, The story of Jews and cannabis to be explored at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (April 26, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Shal We Toke, NY Exhibit Highlights History of the Chosen Ones and Cannabis (April 26, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Kikar, המכון היהודי: 'קנה בושם' שבתורה - קנאביס (April 25, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Mako, הקשר בין יהודים לבין קנאביס יוצג בתערוכה חדשה בניו יורק (April 25, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Jewish Business News, Jews and Cannabis Exhibit Opens (April 24, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

1010 Wins, Exhibit on the relationship between Jews and cannabis coming to NYC (April 23, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

New York Post, New exhibit opens on history of Jews and cannabis (April 23, 2022, picked up by The Tech Agents, Report Door, US Time Today, Good Word News, LA Cannabis News, and Newsbreak)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Forward, ייִוואָ־פֿעסטיוואַל פֿון ייִדישן פֿאָלקסליד (April 21, 2022)
Topic » Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today

Time Out, Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis (April 20, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Cannabis Wealth, International Learn the story of the relationship between the Jews and cannabis (April 15, 2022)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Social Education, Connecting the Past to the Present: A Digital Exhibition about One Jewish Girl’s Life in Eastern Europe (March/April 2022)
Topic » YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum

Broadway World, YIVO Yiddish Folksong Festival Returns with Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today (March 31, 2022)
Topic » Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today

The Jewish Standard, The diary of Zelig Kalmanovich (March 31, 2022)
Topic » Hope Is Stronger Than Life: The Vilna Ghetto Diary of Zelig Kalmanovich

Talkline, Talkline with Zev Brenner with Jonathan Brent Exec Dir CEO of YIVO on the New Yiddish Research (March 25, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Tablet Magazine, Writing Women Into History (March 25, 2022, mention)
Topic » The Yiddishists

In Geveb, Beyond the Shtetl: Teaching Yiddish Literature in the UK (March 24, 2022, mention)
Topic » Yiddish

NJ.com, What’s happening in South Jersey this weekend and beyond (March 18-24) (March 17, 2022, mention, picked up by MSN)
Topic » After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps

Press of Atlantic City, Traveling Exhibition: After the End of The World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps (March 17, 2022)
Topic » After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps

The Algemeiner, New Jersey Exhibit Examines Lives of Holocaust Survivors After World War II, UN Response (March 14, 2022, picked up by USSA News)
Topic » After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps

Zigzag, What You Can Do About Antisemitism (March 11, 2022, mention)
Topic » Leftists on Left-Wing Antisemitism

In Geveb, Three Giants of Modern Jewish Literature at YIVO: Excerpts from the Diary of Ezekiel Lifschutz (March 9, 2022, picked up by Mosaic Magazine)
Topic » YIVO History

In Geveb, Yiddish in ale lender! Yiddish Summer Programs Roundup 2022 (March 8, 2022, mention)
Topic » Uriel Weinreich Summer Program

Times of Israel, A Culinary Taste Of Jewish Montreal (March 6, 2022, also in Sheldon Kirshner)
Topic » CHEWDAISM: A Taste of Jewish Montreal

Bookishly Jewish, When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers (March 4, 2022, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives / When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers

Matador, 5 Languages on the Brink of Extinction that You Can Learn Online (March 4, 2022, mention)
Topic » Yiddish

Tablet Magazine, A Genre-Defying Tale for the Ages (February 25, 2022, mention)
Topic » Song Searcher: The Times and Toils of Moyshe Beregovsky

BBC, A return to vegetarian Jewish cuisine (February 22, 2022, mention)
Topic »Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

The New York Times, How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity (February 6, 2022, mention, picked up by Art Daily)
Topic » Yiddish Literature / YIVO Archives

Deutsche Welle, Vast archives on Jewish life hidden from the Nazis now online (February 3, 2022, picked up in Times of News)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Tablet Magazine, Diving into the Vilna Collections (February 2, 2022, picked up by Mosaic Magazine)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Tablet Magazine, The Vilna Collections in Translation (February 2, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

The Jewish Quarterly, The Incredible Story of the Vilnius Archive (February 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

NPR, Here & Now: The largest archive of Jewish history is now online (January 27, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Haaretz, The Holocaust Left a Brutal Absence at the Heart of American Jewish Culture. Until Now (January 27, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

South African Jewish Report, Eastern European Jewish culture revived in massive archive (January 27, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Observador, A maior coleção de documentos em iídiche. O “tesouro” dos judeus que quase foi destruído pelos nazis (January 26, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

JTA, Does Wordle have you ‘farblundget’? Try these Hebrew and Yiddish versions. (January 25, 2022, mention, picked up by The Forward, Cleveland Jewish News, The Jewish News of Northern California, The Jewish Standard, and Jewish Journal)
Topic » Yiddish

Jewish Boston, Graphic Novel Rescues Part of Holocaust History From Oblivion (January 24, 2022, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives / When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers

Maariv, בריגדת הנייר" מגטו וילנה: היהודים שהחביאו ספרים נדירים כדי להציל אותם מהשמדה" (January 22, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

The Shtick, YIVO Chief of Staff Shelly Freeman on The SHTICK S68-01Part 2 (January 22, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

The Shtick, YIVO Chief of Staff Shelly Freeman on The SHTICK S68-01Part 1 (January 22, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Tablet Magazine, Have Yourself a Yiddish Little Christmas (January 18, 2022, mention)
Topic » From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony / The Letters Project: A Daughter’s Journey

The Jerusalem Post, A Matter of Opinion (January 12, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Jewish in Seattle, Current Events: Learning (January 12, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Lietuvos Respublikos generalinis konsulatas Niujorke, Atkurta ir visiems pasiekiama didžiausia pasaulyje Rytų Europos žydų biblioteka (January 12, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija, Ryto garsai. Kodėl pamario gyventojai neturi ledlaužio, kuris padėtų sumažinti potvynius? (January 11, 2022, 18 minutes, 20 seconds in)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija, Istorinė iniciatyva užbaigta: apie žydų kultūrą bylojančios archyvų kolekcijos tapo prieinamos visiems (January 11, 2022, also in English)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

JWire, Pre-war Vilna online (January 11, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Haaretz, Treasure Trove of Documents on Pre-war Jewish Life, Nearly Destroyed by the Nazis, Goes Online (January 10, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

BBC Worldwide News, Preserving Jewish History (January 10, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

BBC Radio, The Newsroom (January 10, 2022, at 17 minutes)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

i24 News, YIVO Makes Archives of Yiddish Life Available Online (January 10, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

JNS, ‘A lost Jewish history reclaimed’: New digital archive reveals pre-Holocaust world of Eastern European Jewry (January 10, 2022, picked up by Israel Hayom, Columbus Jewish News, The J, Intermountain Jewish News, and Cleveland Jewish News)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Verslo Žinios, Sukurta didžiausia pasaulyje skaitmeninė žydų biblioteka (January 10, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Обзор, Завершилась оцифровка еврейской библиотеки Литвы и архивов YIVO (January 10, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Baigtas YIVO Žydų mokslinių tyrimų instituto Niujorke ir trijų Lietuvos atminties institucijų bendras projektas (January 10, 2022, picked up by 15min)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Diena, Baigti skaitmeninti prieškario dokumentai atskleidžia žydų istoriją ir kultūrą (January 10, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

The Jewish Voice, Pre-War Collection of Yiddish Culture in Europe Now Available Online Due to Efforts of YIVO Institute (January 9, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

The Algemeiner, ‘Cultural Survivors of the Holocaust’: Jewish Institute Digitizes Precious Books, Manuscripts Rescued From Nazi and Soviet Clutches (January 7, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

The Jewish Insider, Daily Kickoff (January 7, 2022, mention)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

The Jewish Week, How Chaim Walder got away with it • A progressive approach to fighting antisemitism • Peter Bogdanovich dies (January 7, 2022, mention)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

New York Jewish Week via JTA, From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online (January 6, 2022, picked up by The Jerusalem Post, St. Louis Jewish Light, The Jewish News of Northern California, Florida Jewish Journal – Sun Sentinel, Cleveland Jewish News, Times of Israel, and Washington Jewish Week)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

The Jewish Chronicle, The Paper Brigade's death-defying mission (January 6, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

The Forward, YIVO reunites archives to form ‘largest single remnant of Jewish life’ in Europe (January 6, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

The New York Times, YIVO Institute Makes Archives of Yiddish Life Available Online (January 5, 2022, picked up by Actualitte, ResearchBuzz, and Art Daily)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

The Jewish Standard, January, omicron, and YIVO (January 5, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

The Jewish Standard, ‘It’s about how they lived’ (January 5, 2022)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

The Virtual Memories Show, Episode 467: Ken Krimstein (January 4, 2022, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives / When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers

Jewish Renaissance, Back to Nature (Winter 2022)
Topic » The Yiddishists / YIVO Archives

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