Through his haunting and evocative score, Ofer Ben-Amots offers an operatic reimagining of Sh. An-ski’s masterpiece of the Yiddish theatrical canon, in this performance by students from The New School.

Through his haunting and evocative score, Ofer Ben-Amots offers an operatic reimagining of Sh. An-ski’s masterpiece of the Yiddish theatrical canon, in this performance by students from The New School.

Celebrate the 10-year anniversary of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies with a discussion by Jessica Kirzane, Madeleine Cohen, Elena Hoffenberg, Eitan Kensky, Eddy Portnoy, and Rachel Rubinstein.

By studying the plight of agunot, Noa Shashar sheds light on Jewish family life in the early modern era and on the activity of the rabbinic experts with the authority to free an agunah.

The Congress for Jewish Culture, Friends of the Bund, the Jewish Labor Committee, Workers Circle, and YIVO join together to commemorate and remember the bravery of the partisans of the Warsaw Ghetto. This event takes place in Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Plaza in Riverside Park, NYC.

In this two-part event, Dr. Lori Şen will present an overview of the Sephardic art song genre. Zoë Johnstone Stewart (guitar) and Andrew Stewart (piano) will join Şen for a performance after the lecture. 

YIVO sound archivist Eléonore Biezunski tells the story of the Max and Frieda Weinstein Archive of YIVO Sound Recordings in relation to the revitalization of klezmer music since the mid-1970s.

Tony Michels analyzes left-wing Jewish politics since the 19th century, focusing on the seminal Jewish Russian revolutionaries Leon Trotsky and Chaim Zhitlowsky and their radically different answers to the predicament of modern Jewry.

Samuel Kassow discusses his new translation of writer Rokhl Auerbach’s memoir, Warsaw Testament, which paints a vivid portrait of the city’s prewar Yiddish literary and artistic community and of its destruction at the hands of the Nazis. 

This talk examines the life and work of memoirist, poet, and journalist Daniel Charney (1888-1959), with a focus on his time at the Arbeter Ring (Workmen’s Circle) tuberculosis sanatorium in Liberty, New York in the mid-1940s.

Enjoy a concert performed by Arturo O’Farrill and his Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble featuring Jewish and Yiddish classics in Afro Latin big band versions and Latin classics in Klezmer arrangements.

YIVO Executive Director Jonathan Brent and Randy Cohen discuss three objects from the YIVO Archives, with live music performed by Jardena Gertler-Jaffe and Bethany Pietroniro

This talk by Nancy Sinkoff will explore the influence of the YIVO on Lucy S. Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a postwar American Jewish public intellectual and historian, who was central to the field that is now called “Holocaust Studies.” 

Join 92NY and YIVO for a discussion of acclaimed novelist Chaim Grade’s Sons and Daughters, celebrating the long-awaited English translation of this Tolstoyan masterpiece that chronicles the final decade of a world succumbing to modernity.

Jascha Nemtsov, in a discussion led by Alex Weiser, examines the fascinating and dramatic history of the New Jewish School of Music, which started with the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg.

Join 92NY and YIVO for an exploration of The Rudashevski Diary with experts discussing its legacy, translation, and insights on Jewish resilience during the Holocaust.

Join YIVO for a panel discussion sharing new research on various historic YIVO initiatives featuring presentations by William Pimlott, Kamil Kijek, and Nicolas Vallois, followed by a conversation led by Jessica Kirzane.

Join YIVO for an enlightening journey to Lithuania and Poland. Reclaim your heritage as you examine the life that was lived in these lands. View the remarkable history of old Warsaw, Kraków, Vilnius, and Białowieża.

Join us for a celebration of YIVO’s 100th anniversary with a conference focusing on how YIVO’s founding vision for Jewish social sciences has been realized in America since its headquarters shifted to New York City in 1940.

Come and explore the rich history of Hungary, Austria, and Germany through a uniquely Jewish lens. This tour will visit beautiful synagogues, unrivaled museums, and landmarks of Jewish religious life and secular genius.

Join YIVO on a journey of discovery across northern Italy, exploring the fascinating, troubled, and glorious history of Italian Jews in the northern tier, unfamiliar to most of us.