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Today, there are approximately half a million Yiddish speakers in the United States. But what role does it play in speakers’ lives?

This program marked a celebration of the new Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, the largest and most complete of its kind to date, published by Indiana University Press.

Yiddish in the City: Songs of love, longing and lust for life. From your first kiss to your first glass of wine, from the foggy hills of San Francisco to a Hungarian café, to the raucous streets of New York City.

This talk explored how Isaak Babel, the great Soviet Jewish short-story writer, not only knew Yiddish, but was thoroughly immersed in Yiddish langauge and culture.

In 1930, a group of Eastern European Jewish scholars, writers, and activists living in Berlin, Germany began planning the first ever comprehensive Yiddish-language encyclopedia to celebrate the seventieth birthday of the historian Simon Dubnow.

This lecture presents a portrait of Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants who settled in Boyle Heights in the early 20th century, a neighborhood referred to by generations of historians as “Los Angeles’ Lower East Side.”

Uriel Weinreich, the most prolific and wide-ranging Yiddish researcher, is ignored by new scholars, largely because they neglect the Yiddish research tradition.

This lecture explored the Broder singers’ history, repertoire, and style, and their relationship to Yiddish theater.

Back in 1968, there was a Yiddish course for high school students in New York City.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is opening a new exhibition: Classic Yiddish Writers in Caricature. The exhibition showcases caricature portrayals of Yiddish’s “Di klasiker” – the three classic authors of Yiddish literature, Mendele Moykher-Sforim (S.Y. Abramovitsh), Y.L. Peretz, and Sholem Aleichem (Sholem Rabinovitsh).