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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

Anna Szyba explores what was so special about Poland's TSYSHO schools and what impact they had on their students.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, the world of East European Jewry was transformed by sweeping changes. Political thought has often been sparked by such change – and this was certainly true on the Jewish street. This course will focus on the ideas of Dubnow, Zhitlowsky, Pinsker, Ahad Ha’am, Syrkin, Borochov, Scherer, and Jabotinsky.

The Jan Karski-Pola Nirenska Award for works on Polish-Jewish relations and Jewish contributions to Polish culture.

Outside media articles from 2023 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

A guide to doing research in the YIVO Archives and Library: online and onsite.

YIVO is pleased to announce several grants recently received to support a number of key initiatives and works.

YIVO is delighted to announce the initiation of a new project to digitize its Jewish Labor and Political Archive. This will be an eight-year project to conserve, process, digitize, and make available online free-of-charge its collections documenting Jewish political, labor, and social movements in the United States and Europe from 1870 to 1992.

Eighty years have passed since the day beleaguered, starving, desperate, isolated, and doomed Jewish inmates in the hell of the Warsaw Ghetto chose to fight their German oppressors.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for $349,524 to process and digitize four collections focused on the Jewish immigrant involvement in the labor movement in the United States.