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#ohmama Get your very own Yiddish Theater Pack for $32.99 (includes S&H)!* Purchase The Yiddish Theater Pack includes: 4 Postcards featuring sheet music covers of popular songs of the Yiddish stage. 3 Buttons featuring Yiddish theatrical images of Belle Didjah, Stella Adler and the chorus girls in a Molly Picon production. 3 Magnets featuring costume ...

Ronald Robboy will dive into Goldfaden’s career and the significance of the music and story of Shulamis and some of his other musical numbers.

Join YIVO Executive Director and CEO Jonathan Brent in conversation with David Weisberg, CEO of the Federation for Jewish Philanthropy, to learn about the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project, as well as other important activities of YIVO today.

Close readings of selected tracks by the Barton Brothers, Mickey Katz, and Allan Sherman will focus on their language, their music, their delivery, and what made them so influential and so very funny.

The Educational Program on Yiddish Culture (EPYC), a project of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, is an educational curriculum on the 1,000-year history and Yiddish culture of Jews in Eastern Europe. EPYC is a 'portable library' that contains a diverse array of educational resources culled from the world-renowned YIVO archives ...

This talk will explore how German scholar Franz Beranek presented himself to Jewish colleagues and how Jewish colleagues sought to respond to him as a person and to his scholarship in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Join Director of the YIVO Archives, Dr. Stefanie Halpern for a show and tell of YIVO’s theater collections, showcasing playscripts, scores, costumes, set models and designs, photographs, playbills, posters, and more.

Award winning producer, author, and ethnomusicologist Henry Sapoznik looks at the phenomenon of African American musicians who performed Yiddish and cantorial music in and for the Jewish community.

Join scholars, archivists, and curators to explore the rich world of Jewish children’s literature in pre-WWII Europe through the collections of YIVO and the Bodleian Library.

Gabriella Safran explores the connections between Sh. An-ski’s ethnographic work, his play, and the Russian politics of his era.