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Annie Gosfield is a Jewish American composer who grew up in Philadelphia, born to parents who had both been born in New York City.

And remarks about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

A Yiddish Translation of an American Classic

In the vision of the participants of Yiddish theater of interwar period, translation created cultural bridges through which creativity traveled in both directions.

List of recipients of YIVO’s 2017-2018 faculty and graduate student fellowships.

A live recording of a lecture on Yiddish literature delivered at YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.

One of the oldest documents in the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections

YIVO’s archives have numerous manuscripts, letters, papers and more from many major Yiddish writers.

A woman in a shtetl in Grodno sings an anti-tsarist song for a researcher.

This early 19th-century Yiddish book gives first aid instructions for how to treat victims of life-threatening accidents.