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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.

This course is for students who have previously taken at least three years of Yiddish and will focus on reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

Try this Yiddish quiz on kvetching.

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, Di Goldene Land: Yiddish Songs of the American Dream and a Bitter Reality, by Alex Weiser Director of Public Programs.

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.

On June 22nd YIVO presented a Zoom webinar in collaboration with The Bodleian Library of Oxford to discuss Yiddish, Russian, and Hebrew children's literature, and to showcase some of the handsomely illustrated books in our respective collections.

This course is for students who have previously taken two years of Yiddish and will focus on reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

This course is for students who have previously taken four semesters of Yiddish and will focus on reading, writing, listening, and speaking.