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This broadcast from January 31, 1965 presents Harvard professor Dr. Erich Goldhagen delivering a paper, “The Fight Against the Jewish Religion in Russia” to the open session of the Social Science Circle at YIVO’s annual conference, which had taken place earlier that month. As a report on the conference in Yedies ...

On June 16, Steven J. Zipperstein, Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University and YIVO’s first Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar, delivered a keynote address in Budapest at the Central European University’s international conference “Narratives of Violence.” Professor Zipperstein’s lecture, drawn from research he conducted while at YIVO this past spring, was  entitled “Inside Kishinev’s Pogrom: Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Michael Davitt, and the Burdens of Truth.”

On June 17, Cecile Kuznitz spoke on “YIVO and the Geography of Interwar Yiddish Culture” at the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.

On June 26, YIVO Senior Research Scholar Marek Web delivered a lecture, “The role of YIVO in Yiddish culture: Ponderings of a Jewish archivist” at the opening of an exhibition, The women’s section in the synagogue- women in Yiddish culture, at the Centre for Jewish Culture and Education in the White Stork Synagogue in Wroclaw, Poland.

YIVO Library Intern Michaela Walker has posted an article about the beginning of her summer internship at YIVO on a Bard College blog.

The first release of The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europein Linked Open Data (LOD) format is now available athttp://data.judaicalink.org/data/yivo/YIVO. The goal of the project is to enrich online reference works and digital humanities in Jewish studies by creating a framework for new links between different encyclopedias and other ...

Every month, the YIVO Library receives complimentary copies of books whose content has been drawn in part from research done by the authors in the YIVO Archives and Library. Below is a partial list of books recently received.

The bishop of Sandomierz and the chief rabbi of Poland at a prayer service at the Jewish cemetery. (Courtesy Magda Teter) On Thursday, June 12, at 7:00 pm, Professor Magda Teter will deliver the Podbrodzer Lecture at YIVO. In a small Polish town, over 300 years ago, Jews were accused of killing a Christian ...

Today’s episode was original heard on January 17, 1965. On the 40th anniversary of the founding of YIVO and the 25th anniversary of its relocation to New York, host Sheftl Zak talks about the annual YIVO conference which had begun the night before. As the February 1965 edition of Yedies ...

The new YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland is now linked to from many other websites and has received coverage in The New York Times: "New Web Portal Provides Access to Historic Materials on Jewish Life in Poland," Jewish Heritage Europe, and Arts Journal. Mosaic Magazine reprinted the Times article.

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe was designated as "the single best resource on Jewish life in interwar Central and Eastern Europe" by the Centropa Summer Academy in its May e-newsletter.

Visit yivo.org/Video-Audio-Archive to view or listen to many of YIVO’s programs from 2005 to the present. Some of our most recent additions include:

Sunday, April 6, 2014: Passing the Torch: Jewish Music Archives and the Future of Yiddish Song, a symposium that brought together archivists, scholars and performers to discuss the history and creation of Yiddish folk music archives, and the future of the study and performance of Yiddish song today. The event was dedicated to the memory of Chana Mlotek, YIVO’s Music Archivist from 1978 until her recent passing at age 91 in 2013. Watch the video.

In this episode of YIVO’s radio program on WEVD, originally heard on January 10, 1965, Dr. Nosn Reich talks about the 39th Annual YIVO Conference, which would convene later that month in New York. Many of the upcoming episodes of the series focus on the conference and present excerpts from ...

On March 12, 2014, YIVO purchased a collection of more than 300 letters, poems, drawings, telegrams, and other miscellaneous papers at a Judaica auction by Kestenbaum & Company. The documents include both prewar and postwar letters to and from Abraham Sutzkever (1913-2010), one of the leading Yiddish poets of the twentieth ...