YIVO Press Releases

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce the addition of Ambassador Eric Rubin to its Board of Directors.

YIVO is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition, After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The exhibition will run from January 10 – February 23, 2023.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research announces a grant award totaling $80,000 from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support the recovery of the nonprofit arts and culture sector.

The Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Award Committee, comprised of Jonathan Brent (Executive Director of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research), Monika Krawczyk (director of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute), Ewa Geller, Tadeusz Epsztein and Andrzej Żbikowski, has awarded the prize for the year 2022 to Professor Anna Landau-Czajka.

The 2023 YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization will be held online this winter (January 10-27, 2023).

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce this fall's YIVO Yiddish Club sessions.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce its participation in a series of events — with Carnegie Hall, the Fisher Center at Bard College, and the Hugo Kauder Society — celebrating the work and legacy of Austrian Jewish composer Hugo Kauder (1888-1972).

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to purchase the materials to rehouse YIVO’s historic Jewish Political and Labor Movement Archives.

On Friday, July 29, 2022, 76 students graduated from The Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, the world’s longest-running Yiddish summer program.

Returning for its fourth 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.