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YIVO recently received a collection of rare photographs taken by Jacob Rosofsky/Reshefsky, secretary of the (illegal) Bund in Moyzr, who was sentenced to exile in Archangelsk from 1903-1905.

Juliet Simmons reflects on her time in the YIVO Archives and how it led to Reboot’s What Would You Bring? oral history project, which asks people to stand in the shoes of refugees and to consider what they would choose to bring with them if they were forced to flee their homes.

Masha Shollar talks about her experience in this year's Summer Program and what drew her to Yiddish literature and language.

Gelya Frank talks about her experience in this year's Summer Program and how it helped her reconnect to her Jewish identity.

Jake Milhouse talks about his experience in this year's Summer Program and how it transformed into a lifelong devotee of Yiddish language and culture.

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.

See the tenth article in the Jewish Renaissance column The Yiddishists, delving into the YIVO Archives.

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 Yiddish actor and director Zygmunt Turkow was born and raised in Warsaw, where he got his start on the stage and went on to co-found—in partnership with his wife at the time, actress Ida Kaminska—the influential dramatic troupe “Varshever Yidisher Kunst-Theater” (Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater; circa 1924-1928).

Elias Tcherikower was a founding member of YIVO in Vilna, a member of its Executive Committee, and Chairman of YIVO’s Historical Section from 1925-1940 as well as a historian and political activist.