News & Features

On Thursday, June 30, 2020, at 4:00pm (EDT), YIVO will host a digital musical performance preview, Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music, featuring five world premiere compositions commissioned by YIVO.

The response to the many new online initiatives that YIVO has launched since mid-March has truly been humbling and inspiring.

YIVO grieves for George Floyd’s family, the Minneapolis community, and our country. We stand together with every organization fighting for an anti-racist future.

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, Summer of Peace, Love, and Yiddish Song: The Legacy of New York’s Camp Boiberik, by Olivia Reid, Research and Project Specialist.

Find out more about the digitization process and why digitization is so important.

Find out more about the conservation process and why it is important to conserve the materials in YIVO’s collections.

Find out more about how the YIVO Preservation Department works to safeguard all the materials in YIVO's collections from deteriorating over time.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce that its Director of Public Programs, Alex Weiser, has been named a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his song cycle, and all the days were purple.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is thrilled to announce that it has been awarded a $29,992 Recordings at Risk Grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). This grant will enable YIVO to preserve the YIVO Folksong Project: East European Jewish Folksong in its Social Context (YFP).

Given the extraordinary circumstances of the current moment and to ensure the safety of our students and faculty YIVO will conduct the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture online for summer 2020 (June 29-August 7). In light of this change, the deadline for submitting applications and financial aid requests has been extended to May 29, 2020.