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Through two summers studying at YIVO—nearly 40 years apart!—Tara has a life-changing experience.

For Yulia, learning Yiddish is a means to resist the language's disappearance in territories where it once flourished.

Tamara talks about her experience in the Summer Program and how a fun pandemic hobby became a lifelong passion.

YIVO's Summer Program helped Graeme build a sense of community.

YIVO was invited to participate in the prestigious Oxford Literary Festival.

The YIVO Archives has successfully launched a new paid Research Assistant program which pairs patrons with one of YIVO’s highly skilled researchers.

The YIVO Archives has just completed a project to catalog 500 collections that were donated over the past several years.

On Friday, July 29, 2022, 76 students graduated from The Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, the world’s longest-running Yiddish summer program.

See the thirteenth article in the Jewish Renaissance column The Yiddishists, delving into the YIVO Archives.

YIVO’s Director of Public Programs, Alex Weiser, wrote an article for the Passport section of the UK-based Jewish Renaissance’s Summer 2022 issue about Yiddish powers who moved from Europe to New York in the early 20th century.