In this class students will read, listen to, and discuss 20th century Yiddish short stories in a variety of forms and styles. It is appropriate for students at the higher intermediate and advanced levels.

This weekly reading class covers grammar and how to read Yiddish texts with the help of a dictionary. It is for students new to Yiddish, especially those interested in obtaining reading proficiency for academic or archival research.

This weekly conversational class covers grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for students with some basic familiarity with spoken Yiddish.

This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly standard class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

This twice-weekly intensive class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intensive Beginner I&II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This twice-weekly intensive class further enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intensive Advanced I&II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This workshop, led by YIVO’s Reference and Outreach Archivist Ruby Landau-Pincus, will cover what information researchers can expect to discover in a finding aid and will provide an overview of a range of finding aid formats, from digital finding aids to legacy finding aids and other resources available for navigating collections in the YIVO Archives.

This twice-weekly intensive class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for students who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

This twice-weekly intensive class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intensive Intermediate I&II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This twice-weekly intensive class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intensive Advanced V&VI Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly standard class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly standard class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

Samuel Glauber examines Jewish engagement with modern occultism, with a focus on eastern European Jewry and its diaspora.

This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Noa Tsaushu analyzes the works of Jewish Ukrainian artist Issachar Ber Ryback (1897-1935).

This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Abraham Lichtenbaum explores the work of Yiddish writers Perets Hirshbeyn and H.-D. Nomberg, who sought to capture their era and a picture of life across the Americas and Israel in their writing.

This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Through the prism of New York’s Lower East Side, Elissa Sampson examines the historical interactions seen in Jewish urban immigration, United States industrialization, and processes of social and geographical mobility.

This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Join YIVO for a concert exploring Yiddish and Hebrew songs of the Weimar Republic.

Netta Ehrlich explores the history of Jewish resistance to pogroms in the Russian Empire before and during the failed 1905 revolution.

This weekly conversational class is for students who already have some experience speaking in Yiddish, can hold a basic conversation, and want to take their self-expression to the next level.

Join YIVO for a performance of Jacob Weinberg’s Ten Jewish Songs (1933), a collection of Jewish folksongs, holiday songs, dances, and Hasidic nigunim, performed by Thomas Kotcheff. Famous for writing the first Hebrew language opera, The Pioneers (Hechalutz), Weinberg was a prolific composer with many songs, choral works, chamber compositions, and oratorios to his name.

Join YIVO to celebrate the launch of our newest exhibition, The Instant Art of Morris Katz, with a reception catered by The Challah Fairy and exhibit tours offered by YIVO Senior Academic Advisor & Director of Exhibitions, Eddy Portnoy.

Considering an array of sources, including prewar memoirs, religious and secular self-government records, and court files, Miranda Brethour will describe how rural leadership was an important site of interaction between Jews and Christians in the Lublin countryside leading up to German occupation.

Join Lorin Sklamberg for his first-ever concert of the ballads of the beloved legendary Yiddish bard of Krakow, Mordkhe Gebirtig, focusing on the lyrics contained in Gebiritg's hand-written notebooks housed in the YIVO Archives.

Spencer Sunshine discusses a new wave of aspiring neo-Nazi terrorists and the inspiration they draw from James Mason’s Siege, which praises terrorism, serial killers, and Charles Manson.

Naomi Seidman, in conversation with Ken Frieden, explores the academic interest in aiming to detect Jewish influences on Sigmund Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought.

Join YIVO for an enlightening journey to Lithuania and Poland. Examine the life that was lived as you reconnect with your own heritage. Discover the remarkable treasures of old Warsaw, Kraków, Vilnius, and Białowieża.

Jeffrey Shandler, in conversation with Deborah Dash Moore, explores the Museum of the Homes of the Past, an abandoned YIVO project that intended to document the European Jewish lives, places, and ways of living that were destroyed during the Holocaust.

Come and see Vienna, Prague, and Budapest: cities of Habsburg glory and Jewish memory. This tour will visit beautiful synagogues, unrivaled museums, and landmarks of Jewish religious life and secular genius.

Join YIVO for a discussion about Anita Norich’s new translation of Celia Dropkin's Desires, with Norich in conversation with Director of Publishing and Public Programs at the Yiddish Book Center, Lisa Newman.

Join YIVO on a fascinating journey of discovery across northern Italy from Torino, Genova via Firenze, Parma, Modena, Ferrara, Padua to Trieste and Venezia, discovering the fabled Jewish history, unfamiliar to most of us.

Join YIVO for a screening of a short film exploring the poet Joseph Brodsky’s Jewish identity, his legacy, and the political undertones of his writing.