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In Yiddish, one colorful way Jews can greet each other is with the saying, “?װאָס מאַכט אַ ייִד” (vos makht a yid?). Literally this means, “what does a Jew make?” Idiomatically it means something like, “what’s doing man?”

Professor Dauber will discuss the life, work, and legacy of the great Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (Sholem Rabinovitsh) and the difficulties Dauber faced in writing the first comprehensive biography about the author.

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

Isidore Zolotarevski’s legendary 1910 melodrama will be presented at YIVO in a new English translation by writer/director Allen Lewis Rickman in a ‘rehearsed reading’ format, for one performance only. Not for the weak of heart, “Money, Love, and Shame!” is a wild ride with a group of dysfunctional Jewish immigrants. Though considered “shund,” or “trash” by critics, it was one of the most popular and most often produced plays on the Yiddish stage.

Yiddish stories describing the intellectual limitations of the Khelemer naronim, the fools, or, in the more common ironic formulation, the wise men of Chelm, made their debut in Eastern Europe in the 19th century.

This talk explores the evolution of Zhitlovski's program for secular Yiddish culture before and after Czernowitz, his radical plan for American Jewry, and his approach towards translation in theory and practice.

This talk considers the role of international travel, correspondence, touring, and artistic exchange in the Vilna Troupe's extraordinary rise to success.

This concert series is devoted to rarely heard masterworks from the Sidney Krum Jewish Music and Yiddish Theater Memorial Collections at YIVO, performed by gifted young artists from the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music and other premier conservatories in the metropolitan New York area.

In Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from the Forward, 42 Yiddish-language stories are translated for the first time. Ezra Glinter, Dara Horn, and the translators read from the stories, give us a taste of the Yiddish originals, and engage in a discussion of the work.

This talk traced Peretz’s day-to-day reactions and the development of his ideas amidst the Revolution of 1905-06 as it unfolded in Warsaw, the cultural capital of the Yiddish-speaking world.