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Join us for a filmed interview with writer and painter Yonia Fain conducted by Sheva Zucker, entirely in Yiddish with accurate and complete English subtitles, enhanced by photos and music.

The YIVO Institute’s 2018 Gala Award Dinner honors Irene Pletka for her exemplary leadership, inspiring generosity, and outstanding commitment to the preservation of Jewish history and culture.

Course List · January 3 – 25, 2018 Throughout the centuries, Jews have encountered myriad forms of oppression. From conflicts dating back to the founding of the first Jewish polis in ancient times, to forms of contemporary antisemitism, Jews in every epoch have found creative means to resist their oppressors, devising ...

Outside media articles from 1950-1959 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

On May 24, 2019, Renee Miller, volunteer archivist and a treasured and beloved member of YIVO’s family, passed away after battling cancer.

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Find out more about how the YIVO Preservation Department works to safeguard all the materials in YIVO's collections from deteriorating over time.

Author and historian David Slucki, in conversation with Eddy Portnoy, discusses his new book, which explores the Holocaust and its aftermath, absence and the scars that never heal, and fathers and sons and what it means to raise young men.

Here’s a roundup of our recent philosophy and politics-related programs.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce two unique lectures by Professor Daniel Grinberg on February 22 and Dr hab. Joanna Lisek on March 8