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Black Honey: The Life and Poetry of Avraham Sutzkever (2018) recounts the story of one of the greatest Yiddish poets who became a symbol of national resistance and creative survival. This film screening will be followed by a discussion with Yiddish literature scholar Ruth Wisse.

For decades, scholarship on the Holocaust in Kovno has been dominated by the writings of ghetto elites, relegating the testimonies of Jews who did not occupy positions of authority during the war to the margins. This talk will highlight Yiddish and Hebrew accounts of the Kovno ghetto whose evidentiary value has been minimized or ignored.

The new album from Cantaloupe Music, created by YIVO’s Director of Public Programs Alex Weiser, is comprised of contemporary classical songs that set Yiddish and English poems to music.

Join Anita Norich in conversation with Joseph Berger about Jewish refugees in America, female authors, Yiddish novels, translation and more to celebrate the launch of Professor Norich’s translation of Kadya Molodovsky’s novel.

and all the days were purple, a new album by composer Alex Weiser, features songs which set Yiddish and English poems to music that search for the divine while reflecting on the longing, beauty, and tumult of life.

This talk will examine how Jewish folklore, and Ashkenazic (Yiddish) Jewish folklore in particular is different from other folklores around the world, while at the same time, discussing how it shares many of the same characteristics.

Almost precisely 100 years ago, the company that would form the basis for the future Moscow Yiddish Art Theater performed the only play ever written by Shloyme Mikhoels, its star actor, future director, and head of the wartime Jewish Antifascist Committee. Now, for the first time in a hundred years, Mikhoels’ play will be performed in a dramatic reading.

This class will explore the world of Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of the greatest Jewish writers of all time and the only Yiddish writer to win a Nobel Prize.

I.B. Singer's early writings reveal an edgier, darker side of his Yiddish work. Gain new perspectives on this major 20th century Jewish writer though readings of his early writings published before his arrival in New York in May 1935.

On the 100th anniversary of Peretz's death, Michael Steinlauf, Jeremy Dauber, Ken Frieden, and Martin Peretz discuss the great Yiddish author’s contributions to folklore, literary culture, and Jewish political consciousness.