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The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents a two-day conference on Jews in and after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Professor Steven J. Zipperstein of Stanford is the lead academic advisor.

The blood libel accusation of Jews committing ritual murder has been the basis for some of the most hateful examples of organized antisemitism around the world since its fabrication in the Middle Ages. This conference explores the impact of the blood libel over the centuries in a wide variety of geographic regions with a focus on how cultural memory was created, elaborated, and transmitted.

The blood libel accusation of Jews committing ritual murder has been the basis for some of the most hateful examples of organized antisemitism around the world since its fabrication in the Middle Ages. This conference will explore the impact of the blood libel over the centuries in a wide variety of geographic regions with a focus on how cultural memory was created, elaborated, and transmitted.

On Sunday, March 2, 2014, 1:00pm, a symposium at the Center for Jewish History (jointly sponsored by YIVO and the Center for Jewish History) will explore the resourceful ways that the Jewish women in Eastern Europe navigated modernity from the late nineteenth century through the Holocaust. The event will be ...

Elissa Bemporad speaks on her new book about the Bolshevik experiment in Minsk.

Fall 2013 marked the 100th anniversary of the trial of Mendel Beilis, an innocent factory clerk in tsarist Russia accused of murdering a Christian. During its time, the Beilis Trial provoked international protest from media, politicians, writers and intellectuals, but today it is little known.

Based on our lecturers’ forthcoming book on primary sources on women and gender in modern Jewish history, Gender and Jewish Women in Central and Eastern Europe, this lecture will examine the dynamics of Jewish women’s entry into politics in modern Eastern Europe.

Last week, we congratulated Jordan Schnitzer Book Award winners Rebecca Kobrin and James Loeffler. They richly deserve our mazel tovs but we were a year late: Oops! They were last year’s winners. This year’s winners of the annual prizes awarded by Association for Jewish Studies every December to honor outstanding scholarship ...

The most extreme legacies of tsarist antisemitism were pogroms and blood libels. After the Soviets came to power, they claimed that they had eliminated both these phenomena. In her new revelatory book, Elissa Bemporad demonstrates that the Soviets’ claim was part propaganda, part reality.

YIVO presents a two-day conference on Jews in and after the 1917 Russian Revolution. The conference explores the context of, and immediate reaction to the Revolution, Jewish life in the Soviet Union, and the Revolution’s lasting impact today.