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YIVO Receives Grant for New Scholar-in-Residence
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 ...
A Yiddish course for high school students (1968)
Back in 1968, there was a Yiddish course for high school students in New York City.
Farewell to Three Remarkable Women
Three women who were close to YIVO passed away last month: Rose Klepfisz, Pearl Sapoznik, Yael Penkower.
A Secret Language for Girls
YIVO’s archives contain the last traces of the lost world of Polish Jewish children.
A Musical Journey from Russia
New York, NY– YIVO and ASJM present: A Musical Journey from Russia, a concert highlighting the work of the Society for Jewish Folk Music on Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 at 6:30pm at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011). The Society for Jewish Folk Music ...
YIVO and Yiddish (1968)
YIVO has been active for decades in the teaching of Yiddish and the documentation of Yiddish culture.
An Evening in Chicago: A 1925 Photo from the Vilna Collections
A photograph from the Esther Rokhl Kaminska Theater Museum provides a glimpse of Jewish life in Chicago in the 1920s.
2016-2017 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows
List of recipients of YIVO’s 2016-2017 faculty and graduate student fellowships.
