YIVO Press Releases

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has just received the archive of noted historian, scholar, and Holocaust survivor Nachman Blumental.

YIVO announces a new lecture series introducing audiences to some of the breadth and depth of Yiddish civilization in Eastern Europe, New York, and around the world.

YIVO opened its first in-house digital lab to coordinate the digitization, online accessibility, and digital preservation of the remaining collections of the Edward Blank Vilna Online Collections Project, as well as all future projects.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is proud to present an evening devoted to the classic treasures of secular Hebrew song and to the poetry that has inspired the writing of these songs for more than a century.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents for the first time a concert on secular sacred music featuring performances of two choral masterworks, Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel and David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion.

YIVO’s newest exhibition, Rise of the Yiddish Machines: The Typewriter and Yiddish Literature, features rare, vintage Yiddish typewriters, some of them more than a century old. Also on view will be original typescripts by dozens of famous Yiddish writers.

World-renowned historian and human-rights activist Father Patrick Desbois will speak at YIVO on Monday May 6, 2019, 7:00pm.

The 2018-2019 In Dialogue: Polish-Jewish Relations series concludes with a daylong conference that brings together top scholars to discuss Polish-Jewish relations after World War II.

The new album from Cantaloupe Music, created by YIVO’s Director of Public Programs Alex Weiser, is comprised of contemporary classical songs that set Yiddish and English poems to music.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) announces the launch of a new online exhibition, Stories from the Archives: Jewish Immigration to America, featuring artifacts from its extensive migration collections.