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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.

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YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, newest feature article, Composing Identity: A History of Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music, by Alex Weiser, Director of Public Programs.

This weekly standard class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

This weekly standard class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.