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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 concert features a showcase of contemporary artists engaged with Yiddish folksong performing material collected as a part of YIVO’s 1973-1975 Folksong Project: East European Jewish Folksong in its Social Context. Part of YIVO’s May 2022 festival celebrating Yiddish folksong. This event will take place in person at the Jalopy Theatre and via livestream.

Sheva Zucker discusses a special project with bilingual audio recordings and texts of twelve Yiddish writers, including Kadya Molodowsky, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, and Elie Wiesel.

Nick Underwood explores how left-wing Yiddish-speaking emigrants from Eastern Europe created a Yiddish diaspora nation in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s.

Join YIVO in May 2022 for a musical festival celebrating Yiddish folksong.

The program book for YIVO's 2022 festival, Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today, is available for purchase.