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To be notified when new recordings are added, subscribe to our YouTube channel. 2023 Go to year... 2011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222024 A Very Jewish Christmas: When Jesus Spoke Yiddish Video: A Very Jewish Christmas: When Jesus Spoke Yiddish December 21, 2023 Shir Hashirim — An Operetta by Rumshinsky and Shor Video: Shir Hashirim — An Operetta by Rumshinsky and Shor December 11, 2023 Celebrating Yiddish Voices: YIVO’s New Translation Series Video: Celebrating Yiddish Voices: YIVO’s New Translation Series December 04, 2023 Sholem Asch: Underworld Trilogy Video: Sholem Asch: Underworld Trilogy November 29, 2023 Remembering Vilna: The Fortunoff Archive's New Podcast Video: Remembering Vilna: The Fortunoff Archive's New Podcast November 27, 2023 The Legacy of Chaim Grade Video: The Legacy of Chaim Grade November 15, 2023 Labzik: Tales of a Clever Pup Video: Labzik: Tales of a Clever Pup Q&A November 06, 2023 Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity Video: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity October 26, 2023 How to Do Research at YIVO: Pursuing Research Projects Video: How to Do Research at YIVO: Pursuing Research Projects October 24, 2023 The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies Video: The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies October 19, 2023 Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York Video: Book Talk: Walkers in the City- Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York September 28, 2023 Nusakh Vilne Memorial: The Secrets of the Great Synagogue of Vilna Video: 2023 Nusakh Vilne Memorial September 27, 2023 Heidegger in Ruins Video: Heidegger in Ruins September 20, 2023 A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories Video: A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories September 18, 2023 Emma Goldman, Radical Anarchism, and the Opera Video: Emma Goldman, Radical Anarchism, and the Opera September 12, 2023 Chaim Grade’s Two Faces - Poetry and Prose Video: Chaim Grade’s Two Faces - Poetry and Prose (In Yiddish) July 27, 2023 When Yiddish was Young in Israel Video: When Yiddish was Young in Israel July 25, 2023 The 'Tsenerene': The Most Popular Yiddish Book in History Video: The Tsenerene: The Most Popular Yiddish Book in History July 18, 2023 Between Tradition and Trend: Popular Culture and Language Use among American Hasidim Video: Between Tradition and Trend: Popular Culture and Language Use among American Hasidim (In Yiddish) July 13, 2023 The Hasidic Revival on the Eve of the Holocaust Video: The Hasidic Revival on the Eve of the Holocaust July 11, 2023 'Reb Zalmen', or The Aleksanderer Shtibl in Warsaw Video: Reb Zalmen, or The Aleksanderer Shtibl in Warsaw (In Yiddish) July 06, 2023 Who Says Opera Is Always Long? Opera Excerpts for Yiddish Speakers in Early Twentieth-Century America Video: Who Says Opera Is Always Long? Opera Excerpts for Yiddish Speakers June 27, 2023 Yiddishism and Humanism in the Twentieth Century Video: Yiddishism and Humanism in the Twentieth Century (In Yiddish) June 22, 2023 Max Weinreich and the Meaning of Yiddish Video: Max Weinreich and the Meaning of Yiddish June 15, 2023 Franz Kafka: The Diaries Video: Franz Kafka: The Diaries June 06, 2023 Yiddish to the Core: Wedding Music and Jewish Identity in Postwar New York City Video: Yiddish to the Core: Wedding Music and Jewish Identity in Postwar New York City June 05, 2023 Yiddish Publishing after the Holocaust: I.L. Peretz and the Legacy of Polish Jewry Video: Yiddish Publishing after the Holocaust: I.L. Peretz and the Legacy of Polish Jewry June 01, 2023 Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in the Context of Antisemitism in Eastern Europe in the Interwar Period of the 20th Century Video: Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in the Context of Antisemitism in Eastern Europe in the Interwar Period May 30, 2023 Poetics of Arrival or Return?: Laying the Path toward Industrial Utopia in Peretz Markish’s 'Der fertsikyeriker man' Video: Poetics of Arrival or Return?: Laying the Path toward Industrial Utopia in Der fertsikyeriker man May 23, 2023 Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Simple Gimpl" Video: Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Simple Gimpl" May 10, 2023 Baruch Vladeck and the Movement for Public Housing Video: Baruch Vladeck and the Movement for Public Housing May 09, 2023 Yiddish Club Mixer Video: Yiddish Club Mixer May 07, 2023 The Object of Jewish Literature: A Material History Video: The Object of Jewish Literature: A Material History May 04, 2023 Gaping Mouths and Leaning Towers: The Queer Geometries of Peretz Markish’s Long Form Poems, 'Di kupe' and 'Radyo' Video: Gaping Mouths and Leaning Towers: The Queer Geometries of Peretz Markish’s Long Form Poems May 02, 2023 Unearthed Video: Unearthed April 27, 2023 Between the Living and the Dead: Considering Tradition in the Jewish Cemeteries of Poland, 1918-1945 Video: Between the Living and the Dead: Considering Tradition in the Jewish Cemeteries of Poland, 1918-1945 April 26, 2023 Virtual Tenement Concert: Songs of Yiddish New York with YIVO Video: Tenement Concert - Songs of Yiddish New York with YIVO April 24, 2023 Memorial Workshop in Honor of the Yiddish Poet Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim z”l Video: Memorial workshop in honor of Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim | אַ וואַרשטאַט לזכר רבֿקה באַסמאַן בן־חיים April 23, 2023 Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence Video: Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence April 17, 2023 Knowledge Under Siege | The Guardians of Fate Video: Knowledge Under Siege | The Guardians of Fate April 11, 2023 This Was Not America Video: This Was Not America April 05, 2023 Jewish Culture Between Canon and Heresy Video: Jewish Culture Between Canon and Heresy April 03, 2023 A Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of the Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews Video: A Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of the Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews - March 30, 2023 at 7:30 March 30, 2023 Chana Mlotek: Celebrating a Life of Yiddish Song Video: Chana Mlotek: Celebrating a Life of Yiddish Song March 23, 2023 Knowledge Under Siege | Irena Sendler: In Hiding Video: Knowledge Under Siege | Irena Sendler: In Hiding March 15, 2023 American Jewish Women and New York Opera Culture Video: American Jewish Women and New York Opera Culture March 14, 2023 Refuge - Art Songs by Jewish American Refugee Composers Video: Refuge: Art Songs by Jewish American Refugee Composers March 13, 2023 Molly Picon as Lyricist Video: Molly Picon as Lyricist March 07, 2023 Once Upon a Time the Fire Burned Brighter Video: Once Upon a Time the Fire Burned Brighter March 01, 2023 Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America Video: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America February 27, 2023 More Forbidden Music: Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis Video: More Forbidden Music: Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis Suppressed Treasures of the 20th Century February 23, 2023 Irena Klepfisz: Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021 Video: Irena Klepfisz: Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021 February 16, 2023 Knowledge Under Siege | Breaking the Frame: New School of Polish-Jewish Studies Video: Breaking the Frame: New School of Polish-Jewish Studies February 15, 2023 Good Goy, Bad Goy: The Portrayal of Gentiles in Sketches from the London Yiddish Press Video: Good goy, bad goy: the portrayal of Gentiles in sketches from the London Yiddish press January 26, 2023 700 Years of Vilnius, A City of Translation Video: 700 Years of Vilnius, A City of Translation January 25, 2023 Boots, Arms, and Spoons: On the Material Lives of Jewish Partisans in German-occupied Lithuania (1941-1944) Video: Boots, Arms, and Spoons: On the Material Lives of Jewish Partisans in German-occupied Lithuania January 05, 2023