News & Features

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents for the first time a concert on secular sacred music featuring performances of two choral masterworks, Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel and David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion.

Composer Adam Roberts discusses the inspiration for and creation of his new secular sacred work, commissioned for YIVO’s upcoming concert.

List of recipients of YIVO’s 2019-2020 faculty and graduate student fellowships.

YIVO’s newest exhibition, Rise of the Yiddish Machines: The Typewriter and Yiddish Literature, features rare, vintage Yiddish typewriters, some of them more than a century old. Also on view will be original typescripts by dozens of famous Yiddish writers.

World-renowned historian and human-rights activist Father Patrick Desbois will speak at YIVO on Monday May 6, 2019, 7:00pm.

A long-lost Passover song focuses on food and flirtation.

The 2018-2019 In Dialogue: Polish-Jewish Relations series concludes with a daylong conference that brings together top scholars to discuss Polish-Jewish relations after World War II.

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

YIVO mourns the passing of longtime and cherished staff member Faige Lederman. We send our deepest condolences and sympathies to her brother, Leibel Lederman, and sister, Frieda Weiss, and their families. Faige worked at YIVO all her life, starting at the young age of 16 years old, and endeared herself to ...

The autobiography of Beba Epstein—written when she was a precocious fifth-grader before World War II—is one of the 170,000 pages of materials discovered in 2017.