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In the USC Shoah Foundation’s interviews with Jewish survivors, dozens of them recite poems and sing songs in Yiddish. Jeffrey Shandler explores the meaning of these performances amid memories of the Holocaust.

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

How does standardizing Yiddish relate to planning a healthy Jewish future? In this lecture, Dr. Rakhmiel Peltz leads us on a panoramic trip through the struggle for standards in society and Jewish culture.

In this talk, Anna Rozenfeld discusses Yiddish radio programs in postwar Poland, and why they were especially meaningful to survivors and Jews abroad.

Mordkhe Schaechter on the names of trees in Yiddish (YIVO on WEVD, 1967).

Shmuel Lapin discusses Yiddish in contemporary life (1967).

YIVO and Columbia University co-host a conference on modern Yiddish theater and performance. Participants will assess the newest digital archival resources for research in the field and consider women's experiences.

In this talk Michael Casper discusses the emergence of Lithuanian Folkism, and its vision for Yiddish, in late 1910s and early 1920s.

This talk will look at the history of London’s Yiddish theatres before telling the story of its most successful production: The King of Lampedusa.

YIVO’s archives have numerous manuscripts, letters, papers and more from many major Yiddish writers.