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A concert in celebration of the rich breadth of music with Yiddish lyrics including Yiddish Theater Songs, Yiddish Folk Songs, and Yiddish Art Songs.

Based on what is the first cultural history of the immigrant Jewish community in Paris, this talk will discuss the Modern Jewish Culture Pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair - a virtually unknown exhibition of global Yiddish culture.

YIVO’s intensive Yiddish summer program was founded 48 years ago.

Exhibit on the thriving Yiddish theater culture of NYC from the late 19th to mid-20th century. Located at MCNY. (2016)

Interview with Edna Nahshon, curator of the Yiddish theater exhibition at the Museum of the City of NY.

This meeting of the 16th Street Book Club will discuss Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin, translated from the Yiddish by Shirley Kumove.

Buenos Aires was once famous for Yiddish theater – crowds would leave the shows past midnight and retire to the Bar Internacional to compare notes until four. In this talk, Amy Kerner suggests a framework for understanding how Yiddish theater traveled from Europe to Buenos Aires and what was new about it after WWII.

YIVO has been active for decades in the teaching of Yiddish and the documentation of Yiddish culture.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research mounts new exhibit, Yiddish Fight Club, based on a linguistic study of Yiddish fighting terms that appeared in YIVO's first publication in 1926. It combines the now-forgotten slang of a violent Yiddish underworld with images of Jewish brawlers from the past. This  exhibit reveals the little-known history of the unique Yiddish fighting slang used by Jewish gangsters, boxers and professional wrestlers, among other tough Jews.

Come celebrate the first English-Yiddish dictionary in nearly fifty years. Now you can say almost anything you want in Yiddish!