News & Features

The 2016 Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture begins its 49th consecutive year. One of the largest classes in years, the 2016 cohort has students ages 13-70 from four continents around the world. The program will be held June 27th to August 5th, 2016 at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

Tkhines, Yiddish private devotions and prayers, were intended primarily for women and often written by women.

On Wednesday July 13th, noted academic Ken Frieden (Syracuse University) will be appearing at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011) at 6:00pm to talk about the centrality of translation to the emergence of modern Jewish literature.

The Jury of the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Award is pleased to announce that Prof. Ewa Geller of Warsaw, Poland was named the recipient of the Karski Award for the year 2016.

YIVO mourns the passing of Fira Bramson (Estera Bramson-Alperniene), longtime librarian at the Jewish section of the National Library of Lithuania and lifelong friend of YIVO.

Uriel Weinreich, the famed linguist and lexicographer, died young.

Fragments of the records of the Nazi agency charged with looting Jewish cultural treasures can be found among YIVO’s recovered collections in Vilnius.

A new book explores the prominent role played by Jews in photography in Britain.

For Russian Heritage Month, YIVO and the Russian American Foundation host a two-night film festival featuring documentaries depicting the era of the Russian cultural migration and the people who defined it.

The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania has awarded 30,000 Euros for work in Lithuania for the Vilna Collections Project.