2024

Jan 1, 2024

Brandeis Magazine, These Books Speak Volumes (Winter 2024/2025, mention)
Topic » The Paper Brigade

Outsider on the Inside with Gabriella Hoffman, YIVO at 100, Lithuanian DC Christmas, Mystery Highway (December 13, 2024)
Topic » YIVO News

Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the United States of America and the United Mexican States, The Centennial Anniversary of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research was marked at the Embassy of Lithuania (December 12, 2024, also picked up by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania)
Topic » YIVO News

The Forward, Yiddish song workshop among YIVO’s online mini-courses in English (December 12, 2024)
Topic » YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization / Winter Yiddish Seminars

Miami Herald, At the Jewish Museum of Florida, pot in Jewish life, both ancient and modern (December 11, 2024, mention, picked up in the South Florida Sun Sentinal)
Topic » Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Smithsonian Magazine, The Discovery of a Jewish Teenager’s Holocaust Diary Reveals How Songs, Jokes and Stories Served as Cultural Resistance (December 9, 2024)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

The Arts Fuse, Book Review: Yiddish Writer Celia Dropkin’s Rediscovered “Desires” — Yiddishe Erotics (December 4, 2024, mention)
Topic » Burning Off the Page

The New Yorker, Of Yiddish, Litvaks, and the Evil Eye (November 29, 2024, mention)
Topic » Yiddish

In Geveb, Reviving Yiddish Theater in London and Recovering Female Playwrights: An Interview with Sonia Gollance (November 26, 2024, mention)
Topic » Miryeml

The Jewish Independent, Strangers connected by the indefinable bond of Jewish peoplehood (November 25, 2024)
Topic » YIVO Study Tour of Northern Italy

Princeton University, Two Dale Fellowship recipients pursue original projects after graduation (November 6, 2024, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, History through My Jewish Grandmother’s Eyes, Music through Her Memories (October 29, 2024)
Topic » YIVO History

Smithsonian Voices, A Teenager’s Holocaust Diary Is Changing the Way We Interact With Online Exhibitions (September 26, 2024)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

Talkline With Zev Brenner, The Yiddish are coming Back-Ben Kaplan & Dovid Braun of Yivo (September 20, 2024)
Topic » Yiddish

JNS, A sweet taste of old meets new this Rosh Hashanah (September 16, 2024, picked up by Columbus Jewish News)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

Shtetl, Isaac Schonfeld, ‘hidden tzaddik’ behind Chulent, honored at ‘After Orthodoxy’ conference (September 16, 2024)
Topic » After Orthodoxy: Cultural Creativity and the Break with Tradition

JTA, A NYC conference celebrates the cultural creativity of formerly Orthodox Jews (September 12, 2024, picked up by Times of Israel)
Topic » After Orthodoxy: Cultural Creativity and the Break with Tradition

The Jewish Standard, Life off the derech (September 12, 2024)
Topic » After Orthodoxy: Cultural Creativity and the Break with Tradition

Jewish Journal, YIVO Introduces Trendsetting Digital Exhibits for Holocaust Education (September 11, 2024)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija, Holocaust in Lithuania through the eyes of a child – the diary of Yitskhok Rudashevski (September 7, 2024, also in Lithuanian)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

Tablet, The Men Who Weren’t There (August 30, 2024)
Topic » Runaway Husbands, Desperate Families: The Story of the National Desertion Bureau

Haaretz, 'One Nazi Sold 300 Torah Scrolls to a Factory That Turned Them Into Boots for the German Army' (August 29, 2024)
Topic » The Paper Brigade / YIVO History

The Jewish Standard, Liminality and memory (August 22, 2024)
Topic » History

Amigos de Israel, Tuesday, August 2024 (August 20, 2024)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

The Jerusalem Post, Grapevine August 18, 2024: Preserving and promoting Yiddish (August 18, 2024)
Topic » The Bashevis Singers

The Jewish Standard, Who’s learning Yiddish? (August 15, 2024, picked up by New Jersey Jewish News)
Topic » Uriel Weinreich Summer Program

The Wreckage, Episode 108: The Soviets with narrator Rebecca Naomi Jones, featuring YIVO Director & CEO Jonathan Brent (August 14, 2024)
Topic » History

ArtSpeak,  Meryl Frank: Politician, Diplomat, Author (August 13, 2024, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives

The Forward, VIDEO: Meet some unique young people who studied Yiddish this summer (August 9, 2024)
Topic » Uriel Weinreich Summer Program

The Yiddish Voice, Dovid Braun, Zumer-Program Academic Director; Miriam Libenson z"l (1995): Tisha B'ov (August 7, 2024)
Topic » Uriel Weinreich Summer Program

Worldscreen, ChaiFlicks & YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Team Up (August 6, 2024)
Topic » ChaiFlicks

JTA, Why these students, ages 16 to 84, spent their summer studying Yiddish in New York (August 5, 2024, picked up by Cleveland Jewish News and St. Louis Jewish Light)
Topic » Uriel Weinreich Summer Program

Programming Insider, Chaiflicks and Yivo Institute Launch Content Partnership (August 5, 2024)
Topic » ChaiFlicks

The Yiddish Voice, Arieh Hecht: Patient Advocate; Nokhem Lerner: Zumer-Program Teacher (August 4, 2024)
Topic » Uriel Weinreich Summer Program

Talkline With Zev Brenner, Teen Diary of Vilna Ghetto with Jon Brent & Karolina Ziulkoski of Yivo (August 2, 2024)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

The Jewish Exponent, In West Philadelphia, a New Yiddish Club Rises (August 1, 2024, mention)
Topic » Yiddish

Tablet, The Sounds of Summer (July 31, 2024, mentioned)
Topic » The Bashevis Singers

Aish, Teenager’s Remarkable Diary of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto (July 30, 2024)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

The Reporter, Jewish Online Resources 7/26/24 (July 26, 2024, mention)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

In Geveb, In The Great Dictionary of Yiddish Language, the dictionary dazzles (July 25, 2024, mention)
Topic » YIVO History / Yiddish

The Jewish Standard, The Vilna ghetto … through a boy’s diary (July 25, 2024)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

New Jersey Jewish News, The Three Weeks (July 25, 2024, mention)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

The Yiddish Voice, Pnina Sharf: Survivor from Poland, Marek Gaysinskiy: Zumer-Program Report (July 23, 2024)
Topic » Uriel Weinreich Summer Program

Dus iz nies, YIVO exhibit illuminates a diary kept by a 13-year-old boy in the Vilna ghetto (July 22, 2024)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

The Jerusalem Post, Vilna Ghetto teenager's diary during the Holocaust to be focus in new online exhibit by YIVO (July 20, 2024, picked up by Jewish Rhode Island)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

The Times of Israel, Now online, diary of teen shot by Nazis tells of desperation, fear, hope in Vilna Ghetto (July 20, 2024)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

Jewish News, The new Anne Frank? Diary of teenager in Vilna Ghetto made available to read online (July 19, 2024)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

New York Jewish Week/JTA, YIVO exhibit illuminates a diary kept by a 13-year-old boy in the Vilna ghetto (July 17, 2024, picked up by Cleveland Jewish News and 1440)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

Faust, „Uns kann das Schlimmste geschehen“ (July 17, 2024)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija, YIVO muziejaus parodoje – paauglio pasakojimas apie gyvenimą ir mirtį Vilniaus gete (July 15, 2024)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

The Forward, In a young boy’s diary, a record of how Jews lived to the fullest, even in the face of death (July 15, 2024)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

JNS, YIVO exhibit of Holocaust diary shows how teen retained ‘understanding of himself as a Jew’ (July 15, 2024, Cleveland Jewish News and Columbus Jewish News)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

Haaretz, Jewish Youth From Around Europe Write About Their Lives. Now, and 85 Years Ago (July 15, 2024)
Topic » YIVO History

St. Louis Jewish Light, Discover the lost diary of a Holocaust teenager from your home in St. Louis (July 11, 2024)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

The Yiddish Voice, Beinfeld, Glasser, Turner: The Jewish-Communist Milieu in Post-war Poland; Tara Neuwirth: Yivo's 2024 Zumer-program (July 11, 2024)
Topic » Uriel Weinreich Summer Program

The American Reporter, The Impact of Rediscovery on Jewish Communities Globally: Shavei Israel’s Perspective (July 2, 2024, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives

New York Times, A Jewish Teen’s Diary Recounts Pain and Resilience in a Nazi Ghetto (July 2, 2024, picked up by Art Daily, Meio, Estadao, Confederação Israelita do Brasil, and Infobae)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

The Jewish Independent, Discovering Yiddish treasures in a glorious Italian library (July 2, 2024)
Topic » YIVO Study Tour of Northern Italy

Cleveland Jewish News, Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto (June 28, 2024, picked up by Columbus Jewish News and Akron Jewish News)
Topic » Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto

The Forward, Harry Schimmelman, we know your wife didn’t die of influenza; she’s looking for you (June 26, 2024)
Topic » Runaway Husbands, Desperate Families: The Story of the National Desertion Bureau

The Forward, Looking for a free, online resource to learn Yiddish? (June 25, 2024, mention)
Topic » Yiddish

New York Jewish Week/JTA, In the 1940s, Jewish scholars planned a museum about the world they were losing (June 23, 2024, picked up by Times of Israel, Cleveland Jewish News, St. Louis Jewish Light, and Jewish News)
Topic » Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum / YIVO History

Ynet, הארגון היהודי שרדף אחרי גברים שנטשו את משפחותיהם, לפני 100 שנה (June 21, 2024)
Topic » Runaway Husbands, Desperate Families: The Story of the National Desertion Bureau

Haaretz, 'Zeidie Bailing on Bubbie': New NYC Exhibit Shatters Myth of the 'Nice Jewish Husband' (June 19, 2024)
Topic » Runaway Husbands, Desperate Families: The Story of the National Desertion Bureau

San Diego Jewish World, YIVO Exhibit, ‘Runaway Husbands, Desperate Families’ Resonates (June 19, 2024)
Topic » Runaway Husbands, Desperate Families: The Story of the National Desertion Bureau

JTA, Jewish immigrant men abandoned their wives in droves a century ago. Their stories are getting a new look (June 14, 2024, picked up by Cleveland Jewish News and Datilin)
Topic » Runaway Husbands, Desperate Families: The Story of the National Desertion Bureau

Jewish Standard, Runaway husbands, desperate families (June 13, 2024)
Topic » Runaway Husbands, Desperate Families: The Story of the National Desertion Bureau

The Forward, Why a museum on prewar Jewish life in Europe was envisioned for New York, but never built (June 12, 2024, picked up buy CAJM)
Topic » Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum / YIVO History

Good Good Good, These 5 interactive websites help kids and adults understand the horrors of the Holocaust (June 4, 2024)
Topic » YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum

The Australian Jewish News, Past and present meet in Lithuania and Ukraine (May 30, 2024)
Topic » YIVO News

New York Jewish Week/JTA, Beloved Borscht Belt entertainer Morris Katz remembered in new NYC exhibit (May 16, 2024, picked up by Mosaic and South Florida Sun Sentinel)
Topic » The Instant Art of Morris Katz

The Forward, The Bob Ross of the Borscht Belt is finally getting a New York City show (May 13, 2024)
Topic » The Instant Art of Morris Katz

Tablet, The Lost Encyclopedia of Jewish Artists (May 5, 2024, mention)
Topic » YIVO History

Tablet, Women in Chains (May 1, 2024)
Topic » Yiddish Voices

The Jewish Chronicle, Why Jewish jokes make the world a little more bearable, for a while (April 19, 2024, mention)
Topic » Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America

Eater, ‘The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook’ Was Ahead of Its Time (April 16, 2024)
Topic » Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook

The Jewish Chronicle, Race to save historic record of Jewish life threatened by Ukraine-Russia war (April 4, 2024)
Topic » YIVO News

The Forward, To combat rising hate crimes, NYC mayor suggests a PR campaign (April 3, 2024, mention)
Topic » Antisemitism

The Jerusalem Post, American army experiences in WWII in context of modern antisemitism (April 3, 2024, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives

New York Jewish Week/JTA, A grandmother’s Coney Island memories inspire a new album (March 28, 2024, picked up by Cleveland Jewish News and South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
Topic » in a dark blue night

Tablet Magazine, For Ladies and Girls Only (March 22, 2024, mention)
Topic » Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America

Airmail, Drew Friedman: Vermeer of the Borscht Belt (March 26, 2024, mention)
Topic » Drew Friedman: Vermeer of the Borscht Belt

The Reporter, Jewish Online Resources 3/22/24 (March 22, 2024, mention)
Topic » Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America

BookBub, Discover the Real Facts Behind ‘The Lost Book of Bonn’ (March 22, 2024, mention)
Topic » YIVO History

מוסף כלכליסטשני יהודים נכנסים לממ היהודי (March 21, 2024, in English by CTech)
Topic » Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America

Comedy 101 Podcast, Jews and Comedy in America with Eddy Portnoy (March 19, 2024)
Topic » Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America

Columbus Jewish News, “History of Jews and Comedy in America” course to start March 21 (March 19, 2024, also picked up in Cleveland Jewish News and Akron Jewish News)
Topic » Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America

JNS, It’s not too soon for humor in a post-Oct. 7 world, experts say (March 18, 2024, picked up by The Jewish Star and WND)
Topic » Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America

St. Louis Jewish Light, Jewish Jokes: Did you hear the one about the bunny rabbit? (March 18, 2024)
Topic » Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America

Jewish Journal, Just In Time for Purim, YIVO Will Launch Free Online Comedy Course (March 17, 2024, picked up by Israel Chronicle)
Topic » Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America

The New York Post, How Jewish comedians are helping keep hope alive post-October 7 (March 16, 2024, picked up by AOL.com)
Topic » Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America

The Shmooze, in a dark blue night: two song cycles on Yiddish/Jewish New York (March 14, 2024)
Topic » in a dark blue night

The Forward, An online comedy course asks Marc Maron, Lewis Black and more — why did Jews get into the funny business? (March 14, 2024)
Topic » Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America

The Jewish Standard, ‘Is Anything Okay?’ (March 14, 2024)
Topic » Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America

The Jewish Standard, What’s going on here (March 14, 2024, mention)
Topic » Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America

St. Louis Jewish Light, From bagels, borscht, and belly laughs, how to understand Jewish Humor and its history (March 13, 2024)
Topic » Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America

Jewish News, This Really Is A Laughing Matter (March 5, 2024)
Topic » Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America

South African Jewish Report, Unpacking Islamist Jew-hatred behind Hamas (February 29, 2024)
Topic » The Origins and Ideology of Hamas

Times of Israel, A New York Yiddish center finds Nazis lurking deep within Hamas’s ideology (February 25, 2024, also in French)
Topic » The Origins and Ideology of Hamas

Cleveland Jewish News, ‘Origins and Ideologies of Hamas’ web series Feb. 26 (February 23, 2024)
Topic » The Origins and Ideology of Hamas

Jewish Standard, What does the Hamas charter say? (February 22, 2024)
Topic » The Origins and Ideology of Hamas

JNS Wire, ‘The Origins and Ideology of Hamas’: YIVO’s three-part webinar series (February 16, 2024)
Topic » The Origins and Ideology of Hamas

Jewish News, World Holocaust body to launch studies of Hamas (February 12, 2024)
Topic » The Origins and Ideology of Hamas

St. Louis Jewish Light, St. Louisans invited to unmask Hamas and it’s shocking origins and ideology (February 1, 2024)
Topic » The Origins and Ideology of Hamas

EUROPAST Podcast, EPISODE 2: The Power of Archives and the Aims of Public History (January 30, 2024)
Topic » YIVO Archives

Haaretz, 'Too Raw Right Now': How October 7 Is Impacting Jewish Cultural Life in America (January 4, 2024)
Topic » The Origins and Ideology of Hamas


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