YIVO Press Releases

YIVO presents a panel exploring the status of Jews in Europe in the 21st century.

YIVO is delighted to announce the addition of Warren Stern and Deborah Veach to its Board of Directors. These additions reflect the unprecedented growth YIVO has seen since the beginning of the pandemic.

Join Curt Leviant, in conversation with Dvora Reich, about Sholem Aleichem and his newly re-discovered novel Moshkeleh Ganev.

YIVO commemorates the Jewish community of Vilna – the birth place of YIVO – through poetry and song.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research was awarded the John Stedman Memorial Grant for its Landsmanshaftn Collection Portal Project. The grant will support work to increase online access to YIVO’s lansdmanshaftn collections.

On Friday, July 30, 2021, nearly 100 students will graduate from The Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture. In response to the global pandemic, the program has run online these past two summers and seen its largest enrollments in its over 50-year history.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Jewish Children's Literature in Russian and Yiddish, co-presented with the Bodleian Library.

YIVO presents a performance of Joel Engel's Jewish Folksongs Volume III (c. 1920) including 10 Jewish folksongs, dances, and Hasidic nigunim in virtuosic piano arrangements.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce its upcoming program, A Taste of Rome’s Historic Jewish Cuisine with celebrated cookbook author Leah Koenig, taking place on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 1:00pm (ET).

YIVO is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Leftists on Left-Wing Antisemitism, featuring a unique panel of four scholars, journalists, and activists on the Left.