YIVO Press Releases

YIVO and Columbia University co-host a conference on modern Yiddish theater and performance. Participants will assess the newest digital archival resources for research in the field and consider women's experiences.

The 2016 Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture begins its 49th consecutive year. One of the largest classes in years, the 2016 cohort has students ages 13-70 from four continents around the world. The program will be held June 27th to August 5th, 2016 at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

On Wednesday July 13th, noted academic Ken Frieden (Syracuse University) will be appearing at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011) at 6:00pm to talk about the centrality of translation to the emergence of modern Jewish literature.

For Russian Heritage Month, YIVO and the Russian American Foundation host a two-night film festival featuring documentaries depicting the era of the Russian cultural migration and the people who defined it.

The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania has awarded 30,000 Euros for work in Lithuania for the Vilna Collections Project.

Reviving a partnership dating back to just after WWII, Yad Vashem becomes an institutional partner on the YIVO Vilna Collections project.

The National Endowment for the Humanities’s Division of Preservation and Access has awarded $260,000 for the YIVO Vilna Collections project.

YIVO commemorates Sholem Aleichem’s hundredth yortsayt with a new exhibition featuring materials from the newly acquired Sholem Aleichem Family Archive. To kick off this exhibition, YIVO is hosting two Sholem Aleichem tribute events.

Alyssa Quint Named YIVO’s First Vilna Collections Scholar Alyssa Quint, YIVO’s First Vilna Collections Scholar. New York, New York - The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce a three-year, $75,000 grant for a new scholar-in-residence. The Vilna Collections Scholar will contextualize the archival and library materials in YIVO’s Vilna ...

New York, NY– YIVO and ASJM present: A Musical Journey from Russia, a concert highlighting the work of the Society for Jewish Folk Music on Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 at 6:30pm at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011). The Society for Jewish Folk Music ...