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YIVO is delighted to announce the initiation of a new project to digitize its Jewish Labor and Political Archive. This will be an eight-year project to conserve, process, digitize, and make available online free-of-charge its collections documenting Jewish political, labor, and social movements in the United States and Europe from 1870 to 1992.

YIVO is pleased to announce several grants recently received to support a number of key initiatives and works.

Among the materials being digitized as part of the Jewish Labor and Political Archive is the final letter of Shmuel Zygielbojm, a member of the Bund’s Central Committee.

Recent Accession The YIVO Archives is pleased to announce that we are in the process of accessioning the records of Linke Fligl. Linke Fligl was a queer Jewish chicken farm and cultural organizing project based in Millerton, NY. It was founded in 2016 and was sunset in 2022. You can learn ...

We are most grateful to our members and supporters, whose generous financial support ensured that YIVO was able to continue in its mission to provide enriching content to our global audience. Here are a few highlights from 2022.

YIVO is delighted to announce a $2.5 million grant from the Seedlings Foundation to support two important projects: the creation of a YIVO Learning and Media Center (YLMC), and the digitization of an important part of YIVO’s Holocaust collection, the largest collection of Holocaust materials in the world outside of Yad Vashem in Israel.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce the addition of Ambassador Eric Rubin to its Board of Directors.

YIVO is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition, After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The exhibition will run from January 10 – February 23, 2023.

Outside media articles from 2023 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research announces a grant award totaling $80,000 from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support the recovery of the nonprofit arts and culture sector.