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Yiddishland: Countries, Cities, Towns, Rivers

Yiddishland: Yiddish place names in Eastern and Central Europe.

Private Libraries

The YIVO Library holds the private library of Yiddish writer Chaim Grade, as well as the libraries of other writers and scholars.

YIVO Yiddish Summer Program Theater Workshop, June 30, 2014

7/11/2014

The first session of this year’s summer program theater class workshop met in an especially theatrical setting – the loft of New York’s acclaimed Circus Amok. Led by theater workshop instructors Jenny Romaine and Shane Baker, and special guest Itzik Gottesman, the students listened to ghost stories and “roasted marshmallows.”

Wednesday Feb 17 6:30pm
2016

Marc Chagall: Reflections of a Granddaughter

In this program, Marc Chagall’s granddaughter Bella Meyer interweaves images of Chagall’s artwork and personal letters to reflect on his life, passion for Yiddish and dedication to perpetuating Jewish heritage and culture. 

From the Pages of Yedies: Yiddish in the Sierras

1/3/2014

This short item ran in Yedies in June 1964.

Intensive is the right name for it

8/16/2013

Profiles of four students in the 2013 Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture

Tuesday Aug 4 6:30pm
2015

New York Premiere of “Chava Rosenfarb: That Bubble of Being”

Chava Rosenfarb, noted Yiddish writer and major Holocaust literary figure, discusses her life in Lodz before the Holocaust, her years in the Lodz Ghetto, in Auschwitz, in Bergen-Belsen, and her career as a Yiddish writer in Montreal.

Yidishe Shprakh

A journal dedicated to the Yiddish language.

Sunday Nov 15 6:00pm
2015

Remembering Benjamin Harshav

Join us to celebrate the life and work of Benjamin Harshav (1928-2015), eminent translator, poet, and scholar of Hebrew and Yiddish literature.

Shades of Red

Shades of Red: The Yiddish Left-Wing Press in America, a YIVO exhibition. (2012)