YIVO Press Releases

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the opening of its newest on-site exhibition on September 5, 2023, Palestinian Yiddish: A Look at Yiddish in the Land of Israel before 1948.

On Friday, July 28, 2023, 82 students graduated from The Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, the world’s longest-running Yiddish summer program.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for $349,524 to process and digitize four collections focused on the Jewish immigrant involvement in the labor movement in the United States.

YIVO is participating in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which will take place June 29-July 4 and July 6-9, 2023 at the National Mall in Washington, DC.

On June 12, 2023, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Executive Director and CEO Jonathan Brent participated in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) first plenary of the year.

Returning for its fifth year, YIVO’s Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series introduces audiences to the breadth and depth of Yiddish civilization in Eastern Europe, New York, and around the world.

YIVO is delighted to announce that David Braun has been named by the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies as the Academic Advisor in Yiddish Language, Pedagogy, and Linguistics.

YIVO and the National Library of Israel (NLI) are delighted to announce the completion of the digitization of the Papers of Chaim Grade and Inna Hecker Grade. Making this collection available online will enrich the lives of lovers of Jewish and Yiddish literature throughout the world.

YIVO is delighted to announce the initiation of a new project to digitize its Jewish Labor and Political Archive. This will be an eight-year project to conserve, process, digitize, and make available online free-of-charge its collections documenting Jewish political, labor, and social movements in the United States and Europe from 1870 to 1992.

YIVO is delighted to announce a $2.5 million grant from the Seedlings Foundation to support two important projects: the creation of a YIVO Learning and Media Center (YLMC), and the digitization of an important part of YIVO’s Holocaust collection, the largest collection of Holocaust materials in the world outside of Yad Vashem in Israel.