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Jake Milhouse talks about his experience in this year's Summer Program and how it transformed into a lifelong devotee of Yiddish language and culture.

Masha Shollar talks about her experience in this year's Summer Program and what drew her to Yiddish literature and language.

This fall, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will be premiering two Sidney Krum Young Artists Concerts featuring Hebrew and Yiddish folksongs from the 1920s and 1930s.

Join us for a performance of Lazare Saminsky's Ten Hebrew Folk Songs and Folk Dances Op. 22 (c. 1924). This collection of ten works for solo piano, performed by pianist Thomas Kotcheff, features arrangements of Yiddish and Hebrew folk melodies, wordless nigunim, and instrumental dance melodies.

This weekly seminar analyzes Avrom Sutzkever’s early poetry and his writing from the Ghetto period. Conducted entirely in Yiddish, it is primary for Daled, Hey, and Vov Summer Program students.

YIVO sound archivist Lorin Sklamberg provides a window into the Yiddish music recorded in Berlin in 1933-38.

This leyenkrayz will begin with a story by Y.L. Peretz and will continue with stories by both well-known and lesser-known writers, guided by student interest. All texts will be read in Yiddish.

Join us for a discussion of the renowned Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever’s account of the Holocaust, translated into English for the first time by Justin Cammy, in conversation with YIVO’s executive director Jonathan Brent.

While the “December Dilemma” is familiar to Jews today, it has its origins in antiquity when Jews first encountered Christian traditions and sought to distinguish their beliefs. One result was the ancient book, Toledot Yeshu, a satirical, anti-gospel. Join YIVO for a very Jewish Christmas celebration featuring a talk by Azzan Yadin-Israel on this fascinating book followed by an English-Yiddish bilingual reading of it by Shane Baker and Eleanor Reissa.

In her new book, Ruth R. Wisse reflects on her experience fleeing the Holocaust as a child, living through the birth of the State of Israel, and teaching Yiddish literature and Comparative Literature at Harvard University for more than 20 years. A special collaboration with the Yiddish Book Center, this event will feature Wisse in conversation with author and founder of the Yiddish Book Center, Aaron Lansky.