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YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, Composing Identity: A History of Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music, by Alex Weiser, YIVO’s Director of Public Programs.

Chava Rosenfarb was one of the most prominent Yiddish novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. This new book, compiled and edited by Goldie Morgentaler, comprises thirteen personal and literary essays by Rosenfarb, ranging from autobiographical accounts of her childhood and experiences before and during the Holocaust to literary criticism that discusses the work of other Jewish writers.

Join the League for Yiddish in celebrating! After 15 years of inspired and groundbreaking work, Dr. Sheva Zucker is passing the baton to new editor-in-chief Dr. Miriam Trinh and new executive director Noah Barrera.

YIVO and the Congress for Jewish Culture invite you to a special program remembering the Yiddish actress Mina Bern, featuring Eleanor Reissa, Shane Baker, Frank London, and Lori Wilner.

Take a step behind the curtain and enter the world of the Yiddish theater, with lecture and discussion videos from leading scholars, and nearly 1,000 archival objects and documents from the YIVO Archives.

Join us for a Facebook live stream celebrating Beethoven in the Yiddish imagination including a performance of Ode to Joy in Yiddish translation, a bilingual dramatic reading of a Yiddish retelling of an apocryphal story of the origins of the Moonlight Sonata, and performances of two of Beethoven's masterworks with Jewish connections.

The new book Yiddish in Israel: A History challenges the commonly held view that Yiddish was suppressed or even banned by Israeli authorities for ideological reasons, offering instead a radical new interpretation of the interaction between Yiddish and Israeli Hebrew cultures.

Try this Yiddish quiz on food-related sayings.

This lecture will use intriguing texts and images to examine what values Yiddish writers in Europe, the Americas, and Palestine considered “liberal,” and how they saw food practices including both embracing or rejecting vegetarianism, as advancing those values.

We will explore what it means to limn the contours of a canon of Yiddish kidlit and discuss the unique vantage point that studying children’s literature and culture affords with respect to the rest of modern Jewish civilization.