News & Features

Thanks to our incredible donors, YIVO has been able to accomplish many great things over the past decade. Here are some of our favorites.

YIVO was recently featured in Buzzfeed’s JPG Newsletter, sent out on December 22, 2019. The newsletter is a roundup of “the internet’s most powerful photographs.”

YIVO congratulates the winners and finalists of the 2019 National Jewish Book Awards.

The Polish Jewish Observer represents a window into the (often unfulfilled) hopes and (justifiable) apprehensions of Polish and other European Jews in Britain during World War II.

See the fifth article in the Jewish Renaissance column The Yiddishists, delving into the YIVO Archives.

Outside media articles from 2020 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

Celebrate Khanike/Chanukah/Hanukkah by making potato latkes using this recipe found in Love and Knishes, a 1956 book from the YIVO Library.

YIVO mourns the passing of former YIVO board member Allan Gerson. Allan served as a member of the YIVO board from 2008-2012.

This past June, YIVO received the archive of noted historian, scholar, and Holocaust survivor Nachman Blumental.

More than 150 people attended YIVO’s gala honoring award-winning documentary filmmaker Roberta Grossman and leading Holocaust and Jewish history scholar Dr. Samuel Kassow.