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The Congress for Jewish Culture, Friends of the Bund, Jewish Labor Committee, the Workers Circle, and YIVO join together to commemorate and remember the bravery of the partisans of the Warsaw Ghetto. This event takes place in Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Plaza in Riverside Park, NYC.

YIVO is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2015-2016 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellowships.

With a large number of highly qualified applicants from a diverse number of countries and disciplines, the selection committee tackled the daunting task of choosing just one fellow for each category. We thank all who applied, and encourage those who did not receive an award this year to re-apply in following years.

Projects that received awards this year will entail investigation of YIVO’s rich archival and bibliographic resources in the areas of children’s literature, literary correspondence, survivor testimony, records of philanthropic activity and pogroms, and Yiddish dance, theater, and performance archives.

The projects of the 2015-2016 cohort of fellows embody YIVO’s commitment to the highest levels of scholarship and inquiry, and we look forward to seeing the results. Stay tuned for upcoming programs and public lectures featuring our fellows!

Find out more about the 2013 Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture.

In this talk, David Slucki traces the development of Holocaust survivor organizations, through which survivors negotiated their understandings of who was a survivor, what was the Holocaust, and how it should be memorialized.

Find out more about how the YIVO Preservation Department works to safeguard all the materials in YIVO's collections from deteriorating over time.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, the world of East European Jewry was transformed by sweeping changes. Political thought has often been sparked by such change – and this was certainly true on the Jewish street. This course will focus on the ideas of Dubnow, Zhitlowsky, Pinsker, Ahad Ha’am, Syrkin, Borochov, Scherer, and Jabotinsky.

Eighty years have passed since the day beleaguered, starving, desperate, isolated, and doomed Jewish inmates in the hell of the Warsaw Ghetto chose to fight their German oppressors.

YIVO mourns the passing of Dr. Benjamin Nadel, who died last last week on December 11 at the age of 96. Dr. Nadel was a linguist and a scholar of Ancient Greek and Yiddish, who received his early education in the Yiddish secular schools in Vilna. He was accepted into ...

Profiles of four students in the 2013 Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture

This “From the YIVO Archives” program featured YIVO's Hersch Wasser collection (1939-1946), which consists of materials from the Warsaw ghetto organized by Emanuel Ringelblum as part of the underground Oyneg Shabes collection effort.