News & Features

YIVO is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Leftists on Left-Wing Antisemitism, featuring a unique panel of four scholars, journalists, and activists on the Left.

YIVO is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Cry, My Heart, Cry: Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive, Vol. 2, celebrating the new album release produced by D. Zisl Slepovitch.

On Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at 1:00pm (EDT), YIVO will host the digital musical performance premiere, Continuing Evolution 2: Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music. This event will feature five world premiere compositions commissioned for the occasion by YIVO.

YIVO is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Sutzkever Essential Prose, celebrating Zackary Sholem Berger’s new book translating prose by famed Yiddish poet, partisan, and holocaust survivor Avrom Sutzkever.

To commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19, Neil W. Levin—YIVO's Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music—has written a comprehensive article for us, titled: MUSICAL SHADOWS OF THE WARSAW GHETTO—A "New Haggada" and the Sanctity of Memory.

Jonathan Brent (YIVO’s Executive Director and CEO) and Howard Spiegler (co-chair of Herrick, Feinstein LLP’s Art Law Group) discuss the quest to recover and preserve the cultural treasures lost and stolen during the Holocaust and post-World War II.

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Voices, How the Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl Inspired an Exhibition, by Karolina Ziulkoski, Director of Digital and Chief Curator.

The Center for Jewish History and its partner organizations—The American Jewish Historical Society, The American Sephardi Federation, The Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research—protest the recent trial in Poland of the eminent scholars, Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski.

This Passover, enjoy these recipes from 1938 Vilna to 2021 New York.

You could be part of a documentary film about Joyva.