Treasures from the YIVO Collections
YOUTUBE SERIES
Every Friday throughout 2025, YIVO will release a new video highlighting a book, object, or artifact from its collections. Each short video features a YIVO staff member discussing an item and explaining its historical significance. Subscribe to YIVO's YouTube Channel.
March VideosClick to view |
YIVO Director of Education Ben Kaplan discusses Theodor Herzl's diary. (March 7, 2025) |
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YIVO Senior Academic Advisor & Director of Exhibitions Eddy Portnoy discusses a grager crafted around the time of the Holocaust. (March 14, 2025) |
YIVO Public Programs Associate Julia Rothkoff discusses a 1930s receipt booklet from YIVO's building fund. (March 21, 2025) |
YIVO Sound Archivist Eléonore Biezunski discusses a notebook of Yiddish folksongs. (March 28, 2025) |
February VideosClick to view |
YIVO Senior Academic Advisor & Director of Exhibitions Eddy Portnoy discusses puppets from the Modicut Yiddish Puppet Theater. (February 7, 2025). |
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YIVO Head of Archival Processing Yakov Sklar discussing letters from Riva Tcherikower to YIVO co-founder Elias Tcherikower. (February 14, 2025) |
YIVO Executive Director & CEO Jonathan Brent discusses an antisemitic 1922 letter from The Mohonk Mountain House hotel. (February 21, 2025) |
YIVO Public Programs Associate Julia Rothkoff discusses the Yiddish film journal Film Velt. (February 28, 2025) |
January VideosClick to view |
YIVO Executive Director and CEO Jonathan Brent discussing a cigarette box “honoring” the Zaporozhian Cossacks from the YIVO Archives. (January 3, 2025) |
YIVO Senior Academic Advisor & Director of Exhibitions Eddy Portnoy discusses Chaim Grade’s typewriter. (January 10, 2025) |
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Director of the YIVO Archives Stefanie Halpern discusses dolls created in a displaced persons camp in Florence. (January 17, 2025) |
YIVO Director of Public Programs Alex Weiser discussing the Yiddish Manuscript of Sh. An-ski’s The Dybbuk. (January 24, 2025) |
YIVO Director of Education Ben Kaplan discussing YIVO’s standardized Yiddish spelling called “the takones.” (January 31, 2025) |