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Assemble the letterheads of Jewish organizations, institutions, and individuals in Europe, North and South America, and Palestine from the 1890s to the eve of World War II in 1939 and you have a portrait of the Jewish world: transnational; diverse in language, political, and religious orientation; and flourishing. Di gantse velt ...

This concert explores the legacy of composer Lazare Saminsky (1882-1959), whose oeuvre represents a broad cross section of Jewish music ranging from sacred to secular. His songs set texts in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and more, and his music takes its inspiration from all around the Jewish world. This program is located in Temple Emanu-El, 5th Avenue at 65th Street, NYC.

Before World War II Lithuania was home to 250,000 Jews. During the Holocaust, over ninety percent of Lithuanian Jewry was killed, and today there are roughly 5,000 Jews in Lithuania.

Almost precisely 100 years ago, the company that would form the basis for the future Moscow Yiddish Art Theater performed the only play ever written by Shloyme Mikhoels, its star actor, future director, and head of the wartime Jewish Antifascist Committee. Now, for the first time in a hundred years, Mikhoels’ play will be performed in a dramatic reading.

Collecting Jewish stories is as important now as it was a century ago. Share your experiences during this pandemic, from the seemingly trivial to the extraordinary, so they can be preserved for generations to come.

Drawing on archival and press findings, Dr. Samantha M. Cooper explores the enduring relationship that Jewish women nurtured with New York opera culture from the late 19th through the mid-20th centuries. A response to this talk will be provided by Judith Pinnolis.

Considering an array of sources, including prewar memoirs, religious and secular self-government records, and court files, Miranda Brethour will describe how rural leadership was an important site of interaction between Jews and Christians in the Lublin countryside leading up to German occupation.

by ROBERTA NEWMAN Malka Lee, ca. 1930s. (YIVO Archives) When Yvette Marrin received the poem by her mother from translator Ri Turner (an alumnus of YIVO's Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture), she was stunned. It wasn't the first time she'd been contacted by scholars about her mother, ...

Leading Scholars to Explore Cultures of Eastern European Jewry (NEW YORK, February 7, 2008) – The Touro College Graduate School of Jewish Studies and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research are joining together to co-sponsor a conference on major areas of Jewish creativity in modern Eastern Europe. Titled “Rabbis and Rebbes, Artists ...