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This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for spring Beginner III students.

This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for spring Beginner II students.

This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for spring Beginner I students.

This twice-weekly intensive class further enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for spring Intensive Advanced III&IV students.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Rakhmiel Peltz as the inaugural Atran Visiting Professor of Yiddish Language and Linguistics.

Dr. Peltz, a specialist in the social history of Yiddish language and culture, is the Founding Director of the Judaic Studies Program and Professor of Sociolinguistics at Drexel University. His numerous articles and publications include “From Immigrant to Ethnic Culture: American Yiddish Culture in South Philadelphia,” (Stanford University Press, 1997). Dr. Peltz has been a fellow at the Center for Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Patt and Choseed Fellowships at YIVO. He is currently working on a book on Uriel Weinreich’s research oeuvre, as well as a book on the future of the Yiddish language.

Night Songs from a Neighboring Village is a concert program pairing two musical traditions—East European Jewish and Ukrainian—that have existed side by side and nourished each other for centuries.

Join Eddy Portnoy, Jody Rosen, and Alana Newhouse for a look at the images, language, and music of the “stage Jew,” a common character in vaudeville a century ago.

In the late 1940s, the International Workers Order (IWO), a leftwing, multi-ethnic fraternal order established by Jews active in the American Communist movement, reached a membership peak of close to several hundred thousand members.

This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for spring Beginner I students.

Samuel Kassow, YIVO’s Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar in East European Jewish History, considers Jewish cultural resistance through literature during the Holocaust.