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In Fall 2017 and Winter 2018, YIVO hosts two Yiddish-language seminars led by Itsik Bleaman and Yankl-Peretz Blum.

As Alex Weiser learned Yiddish at YIVO and connected with the world of Jewish studies, he felt a “homecoming” to a Jewish world that he never quite knew existed.

Take a step behind the curtain and enter the world of the Yiddish theater, with lecture and discussion videos from leading scholars, and nearly 1,000 archival objects and documents from the YIVO Archives.

YIVO’s first feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, Yiddish Wedding Hop: The Archives of Song Collector Ruth Rubin, by YIVO Sound Archivists Eléonore Biezunski and Lorin Sklamberg.

Given the extraordinary circumstances of the current moment and to ensure the safety of our students and faculty YIVO will conduct the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture online for summer 2020 (June 29-August 7). In light of this change, the deadline for submitting applications and financial aid requests has been extended to May 29, 2020.

Join us for a live-recording of Charlie Buckholtz’s Bad Rabbi Podcast in which Buckholtz will be joined by YIVO’s Eddy Portnoy for a discussion of Portnoy’s book, Bad Rabbi and Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press.

This lecture will explore the images of the ghost, the undead, and the zombie in the bilingual, Hebrew-Yiddish works of Hayim Nahman Bialik and Isaac Leib Peretz.

Yiddishists understood Yiddish as a global language and its secular culture as a global culture whose centre lay in eastern Europe. But where was the capital the "Yiddishland"?

Tips and resources for research of the Holocaust, family history, and Yiddish at YIVO.

Learn about our educational initiatives in the Yiddish language and Jewish history and culture.