News & Features

Archives Intern Abe Gold discusses the recently accessioned Ilan Stavans Collection.

The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) collection helps illuminate the role of the immigrant Jewish community in American trade unions, labor organizations, and political groups..

Genia Neuhaus reflects on her experiences during the 2023 Lithuania & Poland Study Tour.

YIVO recently completed an Ambassador Program focused on expanding knowledge of the Online Museum and its resources, introducing and encouraging use of the museum and its resources to educators, and creating related middle and high school lesson plans.

This spring, the YIVO Learning and Media Center (YLMC) held pilot programs with the Frisch School (a modern Orthodox school) and the Riverdale Country School (a pre-K through grade 12 independent school).

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the opening of its newest on-site exhibition on September 5, 2023, Palestinian Yiddish: A Look at Yiddish in the Land of Israel before 1948.

On Friday, July 28, 2023, 82 students graduated from The Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, the world’s longest-running Yiddish summer program.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for $349,524 to process and digitize four collections focused on the Jewish immigrant involvement in the labor movement in the United States.

Neil W. Levin, YIVO's Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music, explores the first Yiddish opera, King Ahaz (Melekh Akhaz), composed in 1911 by Samuel Alman.

YIVO is participating in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which will take place June 29-July 4 and July 6-9, 2023 at the National Mall in Washington, DC.