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Yiddish enthusiasts the world over, join the YIVO Yiddish club to celebrate Mame-loshn.

Join YIVO for Yiddish Club with actor, translator, and YIVO Yiddish Club host, Shane Baker, and featuring special guest host, playwright and Tablet Magazine columnist, Rokhl Kafrissen.

Join YIVO for Yiddish Club with multi-instrumentalist, YIVO Sound Archivist, and founding member of the Grammy Award-winning Yiddish-American roots band, the Klezmatics, Lorin Sklamberg.

YIVO is excited to announce this fall's YIVO Yiddish Club sessions.

Join YIVO for Yiddish Club with actor, singer, filmmaker, and founder and artistic director of Chava Productions, Dylan Seders Hoffman.

A foray into a lexicon of Yiddish violence, featuring the brawlers of yesteryear. (2015)

This meeting of the 16th Street Book Club’s Reading Women series will discuss Arguing With the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers edited by Rhea Tregebov.

Last week, YIVO hosted two audience-packed events: the opening of the exhibition, Yiddish Fight Club and “YIVO at 90,” an all-day conference in honor of YIVO’s 90th anniversary.

Yiddish Fight Club is based on a 1926 linguistic study of Yiddish fighting terms and combines the now-forgotten slang of a violent Yiddish underworld with images of Jewish brawlers from the past. The exhibition was curated by YIVO Academic Advisor Edward Portnoy and designed by YIVO Web and Graphics Designer Alix Brandwein. It runs through September 1, 2015.

“Building a Future in America,” which took place on May 3, focused on YIVO’s work and activities in the 75 years since its relocation to New York and featured a keynote address by Kalman Weiser, as well as three panels with presentations by leading scholars. Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Mantvydas Bekešius was an honored guest.

Responding to unprecedented growth in demand for Yiddish classes over the last 12 months, YIVO is announcing a variety of forthcoming Yiddish offerings.

Links to Yiddish websites & projects.