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Sholem Aleichem 100 Years Later
An exhibition in honor of Sholem Aleichem’s 100th yortsayt, featuring artifacts from the Sholem Aleichem Family Archive. (2016)
Spotlight on Composer Paul Alan Levi
Paul Alan Levi is a Jewish American composer (b. 1941) who grew up in Inwood, New York City, which at the time was largely comprised of German Jews and Irish Catholics.
Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel
Blume Lempel (1907-1999) was a courageous storyteller whose narrative imagination moved fluidly between past and present, Old World and New, dream and reality, modern-day New York and prewar Poland, girlhood dreams and old-age imaginings.
YIVO's Top 5 of 2016
Thanks to our incredible donors, YIVO has been able to accomplish many great things this year. Here are some of our favorites.
Chanuka, oy, Khanike
If you google the Jewish festival of lights Ḥanukkah, you’ll find descriptions of it which include more than a half dozen different spellings of the word. Why would such a common word have so many spellings, and which one is correct?
YIVO Celebrates Yuval Waldman's 70th Birthday with a Benefit Concert
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will be featuring a concert for the occasion of violinist and champion of Jewish music Yuval Waldman’s 70th birthday.
YIVO Appoints First Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Neil W. Levin as the Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor in Residence in Music for the Spring semester, February – May 2017, marking YIVO’s first such academic residence in music.
A Night at Lewando’s: The Book Launch of The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook
In 1938, Fania Lewando, the proprietor of a popular vegetarian restaurant in Vilna, published a Yiddish vegetarian cookbook including 400 recipes, impassioned essays about the benefits of vegetarianism, and lush full-color drawings of vegetables and fruit. Enchanted by the book, YIVO commissioned a translation, making Lewando's charming, delicious, and practical ...
The History and Future of the Strashun Library
Matisyahu Strashun (1817-1885), a wealthy book collector, scholar, intellectual, and philanthropist from Vilna, amassed one of the biggest and most important private Jewish libraries in Eastern Europe during the 19th century.