News & Features

YIVO announces a new lecture series introducing audiences to some of the breadth and depth of Yiddish civilization in Eastern Europe, New York, and around the world.

On May 24, 2019, Renee Miller, volunteer archivist and a treasured and beloved member of YIVO’s family, passed away after battling cancer.

YIVO opened its first in-house digital lab to coordinate the digitization, online accessibility, and digital preservation of the remaining collections of the Edward Blank Vilna Online Collections Project, as well as all future projects.

What sort of information can be gleaned from an old program brochure from 1921?

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is proud to present an evening devoted to the classic treasures of secular Hebrew song and to the poetry that has inspired the writing of these songs for more than a century.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents for the first time a concert on secular sacred music featuring performances of two choral masterworks, Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel and David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion.

Composer Adam Roberts discusses the inspiration for and creation of his new secular sacred work, commissioned for YIVO’s upcoming concert.

List of recipients of YIVO’s 2019-2020 faculty and graduate student fellowships.

YIVO’s newest exhibition, Rise of the Yiddish Machines: The Typewriter and Yiddish Literature, features rare, vintage Yiddish typewriters, some of them more than a century old. Also on view will be original typescripts by dozens of famous Yiddish writers.

World-renowned historian and human-rights activist Father Patrick Desbois will speak at YIVO on Monday May 6, 2019, 7:00pm.