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FANTASTIC VISIONS OF THE PAST AND FUTURE, YIVO’s 2022 Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization, to Take Place Online
The 2022 YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization, to be held online this winter (January 4-21, 2022), offers a diverse lineup of presenters from around the world.

The Modern Potato Latke Was Not Inevitable
YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, The Modern Potato Latke Was Not Inevitable, by Jane Tuszynski, Program Coordinator.

YIVO Presents: A Very Jewish Christmas: Toledot Yeshu, A Jewish Anti-Gospel
For the fourth year in a row, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will delve into how Jewish culture developed around Christmas.

The Yiddishists: Send a Postcard!
See the eleventh article in the Jewish Renaissance column The Yiddishists, delving into the YIVO Archives.

The ‘Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska’ Award announced for 2021
The Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Award Committee, comprised of Jonathan Brent (Executive Director of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research), Monika Krawczyk (director of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute), Ewa Geller, Tadeusz Epsztein and Andrzej Żbikowski, has awarded the prize for the year 2021 to Professor Jan Doktór.

Di Goldene Land: Yiddish Songs of the American Dream and a Bitter Reality
YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, Di Goldene Land: Yiddish Songs of the American Dream and a Bitter Reality, by Alex Weiser Director of Public Programs.

YIVO Premiering Two Online Concerts of Folksongs from the Early 1900s
This fall, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will be premiering two Sidney Krum Young Artists Concerts featuring Hebrew and Yiddish folksongs from the 1920s and 1930s.

YIVO Presents: European Jews in the 21st Century
YIVO presents a panel exploring the status of Jews in Europe in the 21st century.

YIVO Welcomes Two New Board Members
YIVO is delighted to announce the addition of Warren Stern and Deborah Veach to its Board of Directors. These additions reflect the unprecedented growth YIVO has seen since the beginning of the pandemic.