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YIVO’s Photo Archive is particularly notable in images related to Jewish life in Eastern Europe; American Jewish immigration history; Yiddish theater; and the Holocaust.

Yudel Mark discusses the importance of the Czernowitz Conference, the first international conference devoted to Yiddish.

YIVO’s newest exhibition, Jewface: “Yiddish” Dialect Songs of Tin Pan Alley, looks at the ways in which early 20th century entertainment mocked Jews, engaged Jews, and developed Yiddish-accented English for comic effect.

By way of Bashevis Singer, Yiddish young adult fiction, folklore, and more, Miriam Udel unravels the mystery of our fascination with the idea of the Jewish Pope.

In this presentation, Chantal Ringuet delves into the North American careers and to the works of Yiddish poets Rokhl Korn and Kadia Molodowsky.

The two major works that Moyshe Kulbak completed while living in Berlin in the early 1920s count as significant achievements in Yiddish modernism, each poised between nostalgia and apocalypse.

Some of the most creative pathways in Jewish writing include translations from German into Yiddish and Hebrew, from Hebrew into Yiddish, and from Yiddish into Hebrew and English. Ken Frieden shows the importance of translations, focusing on the Yiddish/Hebrew tales told by Nahman of Bratslav and the German/Yiddish/Hebrew sea narrative Oniya so`ara.

Miriam Udel considers the recurrent fantasia of a Jew who ascends to a status "more Catholic than the Pope." Dating back to the early modern period in Yiddish (and far earlier in Hebrew), the most persistent instantiation of this fantasy is the narrative of the Catholic pope of Jewish origin.

YIVO mourns the passing of Nina Rogow, Yiddish actress and YIVO volunteer.

Celebrate the release of Toyznt Tamen = A Thousand Flavors, a new recording by Yiddish singer and songwriter Miryem-Khaye Seigel.