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Today's episode was originally broadcast on March 24, 1968. Host Luba Condell is joined by Ezekiel Lifschutz for a talk about Abraham Goldfaden (considered the “father of Yiddish theater”). Condell and Lifschutz trace the origins of Yiddish theater in the purim-shpil (Purim play) and its development into full-scale theater productions. ...

A German-Hebrew bible becomes a tool in the hands of maskilim, reformist activists of the Haskalah.

Reviving a partnership dating back to just after WWII, Yad Vashem becomes an institutional partner on the YIVO Vilna Collections project.

The National Endowment for the Humanities’s Division of Preservation and Access has awarded $260,000 for the YIVO Vilna Collections project.

YIVO has a long tradition of creating educational resources for all levels of schooling. 

An intriguing artifact reveals how much we still don’t know about the past.

YIVO commemorates Sholem Aleichem’s hundredth yortsayt with a new exhibition featuring materials from the newly acquired Sholem Aleichem Family Archive. To kick off this exhibition, YIVO is hosting two Sholem Aleichem tribute events.

Alyssa Quint Named YIVO’s First Vilna Collections Scholar Alyssa Quint, YIVO’s First Vilna Collections Scholar. New York, New York - The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce a three-year, $75,000 grant for a new scholar-in-residence. The Vilna Collections Scholar will contextualize the archival and library materials in YIVO’s Vilna ...

Back in 1968, there was a Yiddish course for high school students in New York City.

A Haggadah from 1830 is familiar in more ways than one.