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YIVO’s newest exhibition, Rise of the Yiddish Machines: The Typewriter and Yiddish Literature, features rare, vintage Yiddish typewriters, some of them more than a century old. Also on view will be original typescripts by dozens of famous Yiddish writers.

This talk will explore the intersection between the linguistic architecture of modern Jewish psyche, in which Yiddish and other Jewish languages lie "deeper" than European tongues, and Freud's stratified notion of the psyche.

Beginning with the first complete Yiddish sentence found in the Worms Mahͅzor (1272), this lecture will discuss the chief features of Old Yiddish literature (14th-16th century), and the role of women in its creation.

This talk will survey the radical traditions of Yiddish poetry, focusing on anarchist poetics and the press.

This talk will explore the origins of Yiddish scholarship and why YIVO’s work was seen as crucial to constructing a modern Jewish identity in the Diaspora.

Between the 1870s and the 1920s, perhaps a million and a half East European Jewish immigrants settled in New York City. This lecture will examine the mutual influence of New York on Yiddish and Yiddish on New York in the years around the turn of the twentieth century.

This lecture will review the American Yiddish theater’s formative years, its performance style, and the intense bond between auditorium and stage.

Varieties of Yiddish are distinguished – some in professional but some only in informal usage. This lecture will identify what the several terms refer to and bust some myths where the terminology is misleading.

YIVO announces a new lecture series introducing audiences to some of the breadth and depth of Yiddish civilization in Eastern Europe, New York, and around the world.

An abiding source of modern Yiddish creativity can be found in its encounters with the cultures it flourished alongside. This course explores border-crossings of genre and language as essential to the cultivation and vigor of any modern theatrical culture, particularly in the Yiddish theater.