News & Features

On September 23, students from the Alytus St. Benedict Gymnasium, Alytus Lithuania, commemorated National Memorial Day for the Genocide of Lithuanian Jews with a series of posters inspired by YIVO’s online exhibition, Beba Epstein: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents a concert celebrating the 100-year recording legacy of legendary Klezmer musician Dave Tarras.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO), together with the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, is proud to announce the first recipient of the inaugural Award for Advancing Lithuanian–Jewish Relations and Understanding.

On the 100th Anniversary of his death, The Archive of Zishe Siegmund Breitbart, the Jewish Superman, was donated to YIVO.

Anna Matveeva talks about her experience in the Summer Program and reconnecting with her Jewish roots.

Nobuto Sato talks about his experience in the Summer Program and living life in Yiddish for six weeks.

Aleksandra Szczepan talks about her experience in the Summer Program and immersing herself in a living environment of spoken Yiddish.

Joseph Reimer shares his experience on the YIVO Study Tour of Lithuania & Poland.

A book of linocuts made in 1949 by children living in the Vladek Home in Brunoy, France.

One highlight in the YIVO Library is the recreation of Duke Bolesław the Pious’s 1264 Statute of Kalisz.