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Through a presentation of his early fiction and criticism published in Warsaw journals 1925-1933, this lecture will delineate the beginnings of Yitskhok Bashevis as a Yiddish storyteller.

This concert explores the legacy of composer Lazare Saminsky (1882-1959), whose oeuvre represents a broad cross section of Jewish music ranging from sacred to secular. His songs set texts in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and more, and his music takes its inspiration from all around the Jewish world. This program is located in Temple Emanu-El, 5th Avenue at 65th Street, NYC.

A live recording of a lecture on Yiddish literature delivered at YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.

From children’s storybooks to magazines, from school textbooks to limericks, come and see the artifacts of the life kids lived in Yiddish before World War II. (2017)

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.

2017 marks the 100th yortsayt of famed Yiddish author Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh—a writer better known by his pseudonym, Mendele Moykher Sforim, Mendele the Book Peddler.

Join us for a screening of director Asaf Galay’s documentary, The Muses of Bashevis Singer, about Yiddish writer Singer’s ‘harem’ of translators and their vital role in his creative work. Q&A to follow.

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.