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Author Cecile E. Kuznitz talks about her book, the first full-length history of YIVO.

NEW YORK, NY – The YIVO Institute is pleased to announce that it has received two generous grants for work on the Sutzkever-Kaczerginski Collection, which contains some of the rarest documents held in the YIVO archives. The Collection is named in honor of the two distinguished poets who headed the ...

In YIVO’s annual commemoration of the Vilna Jewish community, Rita Gabis, Yelena Shmulenson, Ellen Perecman, and others explore Vilna’s presence in poetry, music, and personal history.

YIVO exhibition on Max Weinreich, YIVO founder and leading scholar. (2012)

Alternate visions for a Jewish homeland: an exhibition on 3 Territorialist organizations. (2011)

Acclaimed tsimbl players Pete Rushefsky and Walter Zev Feldman join special guests for a multi-media presentation and performance exploring Poland's klezmer heritage.

YIVO on exhibition in Vilnius and Krakow

Applications must be submitted by January 1, 2015. YIVO’s library and archival collections. These fellowships are intended primarily, but not exclusively, for graduate students and emerging scholars. Each fellowship requires a public lecture by the holder, to be held during or immediately after the fellow’s research period. Fellows are usually expected ...

When YIVO was established in Vilna 90 years ago, in 1925, Vilna was part of Poland, and was officially known as Wilno. Today, Vilna is known as Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, and YIVO is gradually returning to its roots there, through its joint Vilna Collections project with the Martynas ...

Nachman Blumenthal on role of Jewish police in the ghettos (YIVO on WEVD, 1967).