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Leon Trotsky ranks among the 20th century’s most important political leaders. This lecture will explore Jewish perceptions of Trotsky, as they appeared in Yiddish and English.

Here’s a roundup of our recent programs on theater, radio, and more Yiddish culture.

May God Avenge Their Blood: A Holocaust Memoir Triptych presents three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks (1912–1974). Join us for a presentation by and discussion with translator Yermiyahu Ahron Taub and Bryks' daughter, cultural activist Bella Bryks-Klein, exploring Bryks' life and work, the genesis of this project, and the related holdings in YIVO's collections.

May 31-June 1 2021 will mark the hundredth anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre, a vicious event in which mobs of white residents wielding weapons attacked black residents and businesses in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In memory of this somber occasion and the racially motivated violence that erupted in America in the early twentieth century more broadly, YIVO and In geveb are joining together in an effort to make Yiddish sources about these events more accessible to students, teachers, and researchers.

On Tuesday, November 10, 2020, at 1:00pm (ET), YIVO will host a digital premiere performance of Joel Engel's "Jewish Folksongs" Volumes I & II, the first classical compositions to employ Yiddish folksongs.

Have you always wanted to study Yiddish at YIVO’s Summer Program? Are you wondering what it would be like to take the program online? Join Ben Kaplan (Director of Education), Dovid Braun (Summer Program Academic Director), and Jane Tuszynski (Program Coordinator) for a brief information session.

Have you always wanted to study Yiddish at YIVO’s Summer Program? Are you wondering what it would be like to take the program online? Join Ben Kaplan (Director of Education), Dovid Braun (Summer Program Academic Director), and Jane Tuszynski (Program Coordinator) for a brief information session.

Have you always wanted to study Yiddish at YIVO’s Summer Program? Are you wondering what it would be like to take the program online? Join Ben Kaplan (Director of Education), Dovid Braun (Summer Program Academic Director), and Jane Tuszynski (Program Coordinator) for a brief information session.

Join YIVO and In Geveb for a panel discussion on contemporaneous Yiddish language archival sources which reflect on the Tulsa Race Massacre, as well as on racially motivated violence that erupted in America in the early twentieth century more broadly. This panel is part of the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation's 12th Annual Reconciliation in America National Symposium.

YIVO is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Sutzkever Essential Prose, celebrating Zackary Sholem Berger’s new book translating prose by famed Yiddish poet, partisan, and holocaust survivor Avrom Sutzkever.