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This weekly seminar studies Avrom Sutkzever’s literary works in the immediate aftermath of khurbn, along with historical sources. Conducted entirely in Yiddish, it is primarily for advanced Yiddish learners.

Elias Pitegoff investigates the evolving poetic program of Introspectivism, which was established by Yiddish poets in New York with the aim of producing Yiddish literature beyond Jewish interest before shifting to critique Jewish assimilation in America.

James Loeffler explores what it means to compose art music in Yiddish and whether Jewish culture can exist without nationalism.

Through a reading of Sutzkever before and beyond the ghetto, Justin Cammy explores the connection between nature, landscape, and the search for a contemporary Yiddish spiritual vocabulary.

YIVO’s Director of Public Programs, Alex Weiser, wrote an article for the Passport section of the UK-based Jewish Renaissance’s Summer 2022 issue about Yiddish powers who moved from Europe to New York in the early 20th century.

On Friday, July 29, 2022, 76 students graduated from The Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, the world’s longest-running Yiddish summer program.

For Howard, learning Yiddish is the best way to connect with the history and culture of Ashkenazic Jewry.

Caleb's experience in YIVO's Summer program helps him find his Yiddish.

For Yulia, learning Yiddish is a means to resist the language's disappearance in territories where it once flourished.

This weekly seminar, conducted in English, studies the myth of Odesa in Jewish literature written originally in Yiddish and Russian. All readings, including prose, poetry, and press, will be read in English translation.