News & Features

Outside media articles from 2016 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

YIVO mourns the passing of Hinda Jacobs on December 28, 2015. Hinda was a volunteer in the YIVO Archives for over 10 years at its 15 West 16th Street, NY location, where she wrote at least 50 finding aids.

Questionnaires were a favorite research tool of YIVO in the 1920s-30s.

This episode was originally broadcast on January 21, 1968. Yudel Mark, the editor of the journal Yidishe shprakh (Yiddish Language) discusses the importance to Jewish history of the 1908 Czernowitz Conference, the first international conference devoted to Yiddish. 1968 marked the 60th anniversary of the event. From 1963-1976, YIVO had its ...

An American trade journal travels back and forth across the Atlantic.

A look at the Educational Alliance records in the YIVO Archives.

Samples of some of the documents our archivist is working on in Vilnius.

Judith Berkson presents arrangements of cantorial music from YIVO’s sound archives, including unreleased and rare recordings. Frank London (trumpet), Cleek Schrey (Hardanger d'amore fiddle), and Lana Cencic (with Berkson on, Farfisa and Viscount vintage analog organs, vocals and effects) are the ensemble.

Exekiel Lifschutz discusses the life and work of historian Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891).

YIVO’s newest exhibition, Jewface: “Yiddish” Dialect Songs of Tin Pan Alley, looks at the ways in which early 20th century entertainment mocked Jews, engaged Jews, and developed Yiddish-accented English for comic effect.