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A number of YIVO public programs received press coverage. YIVO’s February 14th roundtable discussion on Lithuanian-Jewish relations, “Unresolved History: Jews and Lithuanians After the Holocaust,” is reported on by Ralph Seliger in the 3-part article “Israel & Lithuania: Parallel Dueling 'Narratives',” on the Partners for Progressive Israel Blog. Part III of the article can be read here.

Watch video of the roundtable.

An article on Steven Zipperstein’s January 6 lecture at YIVO, “Rethinking Kishinev: How a Riot Changed 20th Century Jewish History,” appears on the blog Mondoweiss, where it sparked an extensive and lively exchange of comments by readers.

The Forverts reported on the February 6 Yiddish lecture by Michael Steinlauf and program moderated by Eddy Portnoy , “Y.L. Peretz in a Time of Revolution.”

by LEAH FALK The best parts of the Yiddish past are fragile: a yellowing installment of a serialized novel in Der tog, a barely legible handwritten letter, a fragment of song passed down from mother to daughter. Ruth Rubin, the celebrated scholar, singer, and collector of Yiddish folk music, knew how ...

In this episode of YIVO’s program on WEVD, broadcast on November 22, 1964, host Sheftl Zak sits down with Dr. Shlomo Noble, historian and linguist, co-editor of YIVO Bleter and YIVO Annual, to talk about Ladino. Dr. Noble discusses the William Milwitzky Papers (RG 378), which includes linguistic, literary, and ...

by LEAH FALK

Ri Turner, a rabbinical student at Hebrew College in Boston, might hold some sort of YIVO record: she’s a zumer-program (Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture) graduate and a two-time YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization alum. This past January, as YIVO’s Ellen Fine scholar, she was among the few students who took four classes at once. Over email, Ri and Leah Falk discussed what brought her to YIVO, intersections between different Winter Program classes, and her “dual master’s degree.”

Author Jeffrey Shandler talks about his book.

By JENNIFER YOUNG and LEAH FALK

The YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization recently celebrated its third anniversary, as YIVO welcomed its largest ever Winter Program cohort, seventy students, who took part in eight morning, afternoon, and evening classes over three weeks this past January.

As always, the Winter Program attracted students of all ages, professional backgrounds, and perspectives: rabbinical students, teachers, social workers, lawyers, and architects shared classrooms with novelists, young historians, psychoanalysts, and genealogists.  Our faculty mirrored our student diversity, representing NYU, Columbia, Wesleyan, Trinity, Rutgers, the New School, and even YIVO itself.

On November 15, 1964, the featured guest on YIVO’s radio program was YIVO Chief Archivist Ezekiel Lifschutz, who discussed one particular archival collection under his care: the Papers of Kalman Marmor (RG 205). Marmor (1879-1956) was a Yiddish writer, literary critic, editor, lecturer, and political activist. In 1906, he joined ...

by ROBERTA NEWMAN Uriel Weinreich’s Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary, first published in 1968, has become an indispensible resource for generations of Yiddish scholars, as well as anyone else who has ever set out to learn Yiddish. Few realize that the publication of the dictionary might not have been possible without the help ...

YIVO presents a panel discussion with European Union Parliament Member, Dr. Leonidas Donskis; award-winning writer and political dissident, Tomas Venclova; Faina Kukliansky, Chair and advocate for the Lithuanian Jewish Community; Saulius Sužiedėlis, of Millersville University; and Mikhail Iossel of Concordia University.

by ROBERTA NEWMAN These days, as events in Egypt feature prominently in the news, little thought is given to the rich Jewish life and culture that once flourished there before 1967 when a wave of persecution drove almost the entire Jewish population from the country. Only a handful of Jews live ...