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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.

Check your answers below and let us know how you did! #yiddishquiz 1. A khisorn di kale iz tsu sheyn. a) A piece of kale would be less bitter. b) It’s too bad the bride is too pretty. c) He is shorter than he is wide. 2. Az dos meydl ken nit tantsn, zogt zi az ...

Mark Smith and Samuel Kassow discuss the largely overlooked yet significant set of scholars who studied the Holocaust from the perspective of its Jewish victims, rather than that of the Nazi perpetrators, examining daily life in the Ghettos and camps, and stressing the importance of survivor testimonies, eyewitness accounts, and memoirs.

This twice-weekly intensive class expands vocabulary and sentence construction at the advanced level. It is primarily for Summer Program Vov and Hey students.

This twice-weekly intensive class covers grammar and stylistic issues from selections of prose and poetry. It is primarily for Summer Program Daled students.

This twice-weekly intensive class covers grammar and reads chapters from Dos mayse-bukh fun mayn lebn. It is primarily for Summer Program Giml students and spring Intermediate II students.

This twice-weekly intensive class expands listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for Summer Program Beys students and spring Beginner IV students.