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Novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist, and editor, Sholem Aleichem was one of the founding giants of modern Yiddish literature.

Jay Berkovitz and Magda Teter take a rare look at three individual court cases recorded in the Pinkas of Metz. Selected because of their illuminating character, these cases offer a glimpse into the cultural, legal and sexual lives of members of the Metz Jewish community.

This Yiddish memorial program honoring educator Mordkhe Schaechter had remarks by Samuel Kassow and Gella Schweid-Fishman, and a music program with Anthony Mordechai-Tsvi Russell and Alexander Ruvinstein.

Boris Sandler presents his documentary about the Yiddish poet Josef Kerler (1918-2000), whose lyrical, populist poetry was first lauded and then suppressed in his native Soviet Union.

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.

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.

Violinist/vocalist/composer Alicia Svigals and accordionist Lauren Brody will perform a program of Yiddish songs old and new and of euphoric klezmer fiddle music, in their first concert reunion since the days of their 1990's all-women band Mikveh.

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