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(NEW YORK, January 16, 2013) – The YIVO Institute is delighted to announce the launching of its new website, the Online Guide to the YIVO Archives at yivoarchives.org. Created by the YIVO project team with the generous support of the Kronhill Pletka Foundation, the new site expands and upgrades the original ...

(NEW YORK, April 9, 2013) – The YIVO Jewish Culture Series, a partnership with the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research and Riverdale Temple, will feature a special program on Sunday, April 14 at 2pm at the Riverdale Temple located at 4545 Independence Ave. (at 246th Street). This event will celebrate ...

(NEW YORK, September 17, 2013) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the appointment of the first Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar, Dr. Steven Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. The Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar will conduct a graduate-level seminar in ...

(NEW YORK, July 2013) – 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 ...

(NEW YORK, June 1, 2013)– The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce the launch of the YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland, at polishjews.yivoarchives.org. The website provides access to thousands of digitized documents, manuscripts, photographs, artworks, films, and audio recordings relating to the rich and ...

(NEW YORK, July 8, 2014) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Gennady Estraikh as the first Albert B. Ratner Visiting Scholar in East European Jewish Literature. Dr. Estraikh will be in residence for the fall semester 2014. The Albert B. Ratner ...

It is with sadness that the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research mourns the passing of Theodore Bikel (1924-2015). Mr. Bikel was a true renassaince man of the 20th century with prolific achievements in theatre, film and music, as well as a humanitarian who fought for civil and workers' rights. He ...

The miraculous story of how rare books and manuscripts were hidden from the Nazis.

by ROBERTA NEWMAN Ten years after relocating to New York, YIVO held its twenty-fourth annual conference, the program for which was publicized in advance in the February 1950 issue of Yedies.The wide range of topics focused on Jewish life in the U.S. and Israel, and included presentations on Yiddish dictionaries and ...

In 1939, Noah Golinkin, a student at Yeshiva University in New York, lately arrived from Vilna, wrote a booklet about YIVO for the Amopteyl, YIVO’s American division. His son, Professor David Golinkin, translated the booklet into English as a memorial on the occasion of his father’s tenth yahrzeit. Introduction to the ...