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Find out more about the 2013 Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture.

Profiles of four students in the 2013 Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture

In 1939, Noah Golinkin, a student at Yeshiva University in New York, lately arrived from Vilna, wrote a booklet about YIVO for the Amopteyl, YIVO’s American division. His son, Professor David Golinkin, translated the booklet into English as a memorial on the occasion of his father’s tenth yahrzeit. Introduction to the ...

Author Elissa Bemporad talks about her book.

Joshua Zimmerman sheds new light on the Polish Underground’s treatment of Jews during World War II.

The annual concert honoring Yiddish singer and scholar Adrienne Cooper presents the award for “Dreaming in Yiddish” to Joshua Dolgin, aka Socalled.

Jerzy Malinowski honored at Jewish Historical Institute.

YIVO presents a two-day conference on Jews in and after the 1917 Russian Revolution. The conference explores the context of, and immediate reaction to the Revolution, Jewish life in the Soviet Union, and the Revolution’s lasting impact today.

In this talk, David Slucki traces the development of Holocaust survivor organizations, through which survivors negotiated their understandings of who was a survivor, what was the Holocaust, and how it should be memorialized.

This “From the YIVO Archives” program featured YIVO's Hersch Wasser collection (1939-1946), which consists of materials from the Warsaw ghetto organized by Emanuel Ringelblum as part of the underground Oyneg Shabes collection effort.