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This weekly seminar offers an introduction to Yiddish literature in the Early Modern period. Course materials will be given in Yiddish and English translation, and discussion will be conducted in Yiddish and English. It is primarily for intermediate Yiddish learners.

This May, YIVO is hosting Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today, the largest music festival of its kind featuring four concerts which cross stylistic boundaries between classical and folk music.

Learn Yiddish in the world’s oldest intensive Yiddish language program.

This concert features music by Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel, Joel Engel, Alexander Veprik, and Aaron Copland, alongside the premiere of new works by Martin Bresnick, Annie Gosfield, Paul Alan Levi, and Alex Weiser. Part of YIVO’s May 2022 festival celebrating Yiddish folksong. This event will take place in person at YIVO and via livestream.

This concert features music by Stefan Wolpe, Lazare Saminsky, and Joseph Achron, alongside the premiere of new works by Marti Epstein, Aaron Kernis, Anthony Russell/Uri Schreter, Judith Shatin, and Anat Spiegel. Part of YIVO’s May 2022 festival celebrating Yiddish folksong. This event will take place in person at YIVO and via livestream.

On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 1:00pm (ET), the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents Are We in the Midst of a Yiddish Renaissance? Join YIVO on Zoom for a conversation about the Yiddish world today.

This concert features music by Frederic Rzweski alongside the premiere of new works by Derek David, Lainie Fefferman, David Ludwig, Daniel Schlosberg, and Dan Shore. Part of YIVO’s May 2022 festival celebrating Yiddish folksong. This event will take place in person at YIVO and via livestream.

Leyzer Burko contrasts the separate development of Standard Yiddish and Hasidic Yiddish both in Europe and America.

This lecture will discuss the migration of Yiddish culture in post-revolutionary Ukraine from Kyiv to Kharkiv, and the subsequent “division of labor” between the two cities.

This lecture will follow the careers of Yiddish actresses to illuminate shifting attitudes within society and the Yiddish theater regarding gender.