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Steven J. Zipperstein, Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University and currently Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar at YIVO, will deliver a keynote address on June 16 in Budapest at the Central European University's international conference "Narratives of Violence." Professor Zipperstein's lecture, drawn from research he has conducted ...

YIVO announces a new lecture series introducing audiences to some of the breadth and depth of Yiddish civilization in Eastern Europe, New York, and around the world.

On December 21, former YIVO assistant sound archivist Jenny Romaine was honored by the Adrienne Cooper Dreaming in Yiddish Fund at the second annual memorial concert in honor of the late Adrienne Cooper, a former assistant director at YIVO. The writer and performer Ezra Berkley Nepon pays homage to Jenny ...

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.

On March 25, YIVO Executive Director Jonathan Brent delivered a lecture at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, DC, “The Last Books: Recovering the East European Jewish Past,” on the dramatic story of YIVO’s collections in Vilna: looted by the Nazis, destroyed, hidden, and, in part, rescued.

YIVO Kronhill Scholar in Residence Steven J. Zipperstein will deliver a lecture entitled “Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Michael Davitt and the Burdens of Truth” on April 2 at the Columbia University Seminar in Jewish Studies. On April 7, he will be a roundtable participant at an international conference on Zionism and Jewish Culture at Brown University.

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.

This event celebrates Cecile Kuznitz's book, YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation (Cambridge University Press, 2014), the first history of YIVO.

Visiting professors at YIVO

Steven Zipperstein YIVO is pleased to announce the appointment of the first Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar, Dr. Steven Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. The Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar will conduct a graduate-level seminar in East European Jewish history, lead a professional development workshop for ...

Kishinev’s 1903 pogrom was the first event in Russian Jewish life to receive international attention. The riot, leaving 49 dead in an obscure border town, dominated the headlines of the western press for weeks, intruded on US-Russian relations, and had an impact on an astonishing array of institutions, such as ...