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The inaugural program in the “From the YIVO Archives” series focused on the post-war memoir of Tuvia Bielski, leader of the Bielski partisans during World War II. The memoir was discovered in the YIVO Archives in 2009.

A scholar uses the history of Jewish conversions to Catholicism  to shed light on ethnic identity in Lithuania before the Holocaust.

The blood libel accusation of Jews committing ritual murder has been the basis for some of the most hateful examples of organized antisemitism around the world since its fabrication in the Middle Ages. This conference will explore the impact of the blood libel over the centuries in a wide variety of geographic regions with a focus on how cultural memory was created, elaborated, and transmitted.

Actively involved with the Ringelblum Archive Publication Project since 2004, Dr. Eleonora Bergman has been working to carry out the wishes and dreams of the creators of the secret Warsaw Ghetto Oyneg Shabes Archive – to make the Archive available to the public.

Excerpts from YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.

Eliyahu Stern joined in conversation with Jeremy Dauber for a discussion about the Vilna Gaon, his influence on modern Judaism, and why his legacy has been claimed by traditionalists, enlighteners, Zionists and the Orthodox.

Fall 2013 marked the 100th anniversary of the trial of Mendel Beilis, an innocent factory clerk in tsarist Russia accused of murdering a Christian. During its time, the Beilis Trial provoked international protest from media, politicians, writers and intellectuals, but today it is little known.

Karen Auerbach’s book, The House at Ujazdowskie 16: Jewish Families in Warsaw After the Holocaust, traces the history of ten families that were neighbors in one building as a case study of Jewish life in the postwar Polish capital.

In YIVO’s annual commemoration of the Vilna Jewish community, Yelena Shmulenson, Binyumen Schaechter, Ruth Baran-Gerold, and others explore Vilna’s presence in poetry, music, and personal history.

Elissa Bemporad speaks on her new book about the Bolshevik experiment in Minsk.