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The Jury of the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Award is pleased to announce that Dr. Eleonora Bergman and Dr. Tadeusz Epsztein of Warsaw, Poland were named the recipients of the Karski Award for the year 2017.

“There’s no such thing as Jewish music,” claims Neil Levin, music scholar and the Artistic Director of the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music. Levin argues that the music he studies and champions is “music of the Jewish experience.”

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents the “intrepid” (New Yorker) vocal and instrumental chamber ensemble Cantata Profana in Gustav Mahler’s epic song symphony, Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth).

The YIVO Archives is a keystone of our organization. It is a treasure trove of personal and institutional records; every page, every photo, and each art object is not only a remnant of a long-bygone past, but also a treasure of enduring value whose impact extends to our lives today.

Rare and unpublished works represent the collective memory and cultural history of Eastern European and Russian Jews.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents a two-day conference on Jews in and after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Professor Steven J. Zipperstein of Stanford is the lead academic advisor.

The program will consist of formal presentations on Bund history, performances of songs and poetry (in English and Yiddish) and commentary by contemporary activists.

A modernist Yiddish poet addresses God.

A cartoon demonstrates the raucousness of Jewish communal politics before the war.

A conference explores introducing American Jewry to Yiddish culture and literature.