News & Features

YIVO presents a first of its kind conference, Yiddish Anarchism: New Scholarship on a Forgotten Tradition, highlighting emerging new scholarship on the forgotten world of Yiddish-speaking anarchists.

Outside media articles from 2019 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

Enjoy a special look into the Ruth Rubin archive with these songs.

Held annually in January since 2012, the YIVO-Bard Winter Program invites students to delve into Ashkenazi Jewish life and culture covering its thousand-year history in Eastern Europe and across the diaspora.

YIVO’s newest online archive highlights the field recordings of over 1,900 Yiddish lider (songs) made by renowned vocalist and scholar, Ruth Rubin.

The manuscript of the published memoirs of Yisroel Yekhiel Kopeloff, a Yiddish writer and activist.

On November 27, 2018, YIVO hosted a delegation of 20 Clergymen and Academics traveling from France to New York to visit key Jewish Institutions in Manhattan. 

The Jury of the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Award is pleased to announce that Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota was named the recipient of the Karski Award for the year 2018.

Shir Hashirim, the Song of Songs, is an ecstatic, erotic book, found in the Hebrew Bible. It has been a source of inspiration for many composers throughout history from the Yiddish theater to the Society for Jewish Folk Music, and beyond.

Irene Kronhill Pletka, Vice Chairman of the YIVO Board, was honored at the 2018 Gala and pledged a $1 million gift to kick start support for the Bund Digitization Project.