News & Features

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 2021 to Professor Jan Doktór.

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, Di Goldene Land: Yiddish Songs of the American Dream and a Bitter Reality, by Alex Weiser Director of Public Programs.

This fall, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will be premiering two Sidney Krum Young Artists Concerts featuring Hebrew and Yiddish folksongs from the 1920s and 1930s.

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.

On June 22nd YIVO presented a Zoom webinar in collaboration with The Bodleian Library of Oxford to discuss Yiddish, Russian, and Hebrew children's literature, and to showcase some of the handsomely illustrated books in our respective collections.

YIVO’s Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series, which completed its third season this past summer, provides an opportunity for Summer Program students and audience members alike to immerse themselves in Yiddish civilization, and practice their Yiddish too.

In April 2021, after a long year-plus with little to no outside access to the YIVO Archives, we launched a new pilot program. Researchers can book appointments to meet with a YIVO archivist to remotely view materials and discuss their needs. This way, no matter where you are in the world, you can have access to our collections.