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Shaul Stampfer explores the origins of the Yiddish-speaking Jewish population of Eastern Europe.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Jewish Children's Literature in Russian and Yiddish, co-presented with the Bodleian Library.

Scholars Anita Norich and Karolina Szymaniak will discuss works by women Yiddish writers and their reception.

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, How Jewish Newspaper Editors Flipped Anti-Semitic Imagery into the First Yiddish Cartoon, by Eddy Portnoy, Academic Advisor & Exhibitions Curator.

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, Summer of Peace, Love, and Yiddish Song: The Legacy of New York’s Camp Boiberik, by Olivia Reid, Research and Project Specialist.

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, Academic Advisor & Exhibitions Curator.

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, “Everyday People’s Troubles”: A Brif History of Yiddish Advice Radio in the United States, by Hallel Yadin, Archives Associate.

On Friday, July 30, 2021, nearly 100 students will graduate from The Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture. In response to the global pandemic, the program has run online these past two summers and seen its largest enrollments in its over 50-year history.

Try this Yiddish quiz on kvetching.

YIVO’s Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series, which completed its third season this past summer, provides an opportunity for Summer Program students and audience members alike to immerse themselves in Yiddish civilization, and practice their Yiddish too.