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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.

YIVO presents an elegant as well as nostalgic program devoted to treasures of Yiddish song and the poetry that has inspired this musical expression in all its variety of style. Neil W. Levin will deliver the pre-concert lecture on the development of the Yiddish lieder tradition and its literary basis.

Join YIVO for the release of a new collection of Yiddish tales—In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times—edited by writer, translator, and literary scholar David Stromberg. The evening—hosted by Debra Caplan, a scholar of Yiddish theater and one of the collection's translators—will feature readings from the tales and a discussion of the collection's genesis and translation process.

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.

This course will consider essays, diaries, songs and poetry written during the Holocaust. It will focus on writings from the ghettos of pre-war Poland and Lithuania and, in keeping with the purposes of the YIVO, on materials written originally in Yiddish.

This presentation endeavors to elucidate the crystallization of a distinct Yiddish anarchist satire towards the end of the 19th century, within the broader cultural context of (radical) Yiddish literature.

An intensive winter course of Yiddish for those new to the Yiddish language, or who would like a review. This course covers the alphabet, elementary grammar, and conversational and reading basics.

An intensive winter course of Yiddish for those seeking exposure and instruction beyond the basics.

Anita Norich challenges the notion that women have written no novels or only wrote “domestic” novels in Yiddish by delving into the forgotten Yiddish literature written by women.

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, The Life and Death of a Yiddish Puppet Theater, by Eddy Portnoy, YIVO’s Academic Advisor & Exhibitions Curator.