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John Zorn and his ensemble will be featured in the first-ever live performance of music Zorn wrote to accompany the documentary film Sholem Aleichem, Laughing in the Darkness. Drawing on and departing from traditions of Jewish music such as Klezmer, Zorn’s score is filled with lyricism, color, and a keen sense of irony and dark humor.

Join us for a live score and film screening  of the silent film classic East and West (1923) presented with live music by Pete Sokolow and Michael Winograd (Klezmer Trio, Sandaraa).

This panel shares information about and highlights from four festivals, workshops, and programs that celebrate klezmer and Yiddish music.

Enjoy a concert performed by Arturo O’Farrill and his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra featuring Jewish and Yiddish classics in Afro Latin big band versions and Latin classics in Klezmer arrangements.

YIVO’s music collections contain sheet music, music manuscripts, and the papers of musicians and composers.

The Sidney Krum Jewish Music and Yiddish Theater Memorial Collections include music, recorded sound, plays, and photographs.

In 2013, Isaac Bleaman launched Leyenzal (Reading Room), a website that commissions original biweekly Yiddish-language video lectures about Yiddish literature, which can be downloaded for free along with the texts being discussed.

Bleaman is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Linguistics at New York University, with interests in sociolinguistic variation, language contact, and language shift. He earned an MSt in Yiddish Studies at Oxford, and a BA in Linguistics and Comparative Literature at Stanford. Earlier this year, he was profiled in “36 Under 36: Three Dozen Millenials And Gen-Xers Reinventing The Jewish Community” in The Jewish Week.

He is interviewed here by Yedies Editor Roberta Newman.

The YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland is glowingly reviewed on a website dedicated to the Jewish community of Dnepetrovsk.

In an August 20 article in the Malibu Times, "Malibu Film Archive Gives Light To Anne Frank Documentary," filmmaker Paula Fouce speaks of the importance of YIVO’s Holocaust collections, including the recently discovered Otto Frank file. (The article includes some inaccuracies, including the statement that YIVO has spent "$7 million dollars" on a "research tool for Holocaust survivors and their testimonies."

YIVO is mentioned in an NBC News report, "Meet the Polish Catholic Devoted to Helping American Jews," and in an essay by Peter N. Miller in The Chronicle of Higher Education, "How Objects Speak."

This is the third post in a series about alumni of YIVO’s intensive summer program in Yiddish, offered by YIVO and Bard College. The program, which was established in 1968, is in its 47th year. This year’s session runs from June 23 – August 1, 2014. 

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