News & Features

Going boldly where no Jewish museums have gone before, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Center for Jewish History are pleased to announce the launch of their joint exhibition, “Jews in Space: Members of the Tribe in Orbit.”

Jonathan Brent presents “Rare Works and the Reclamation of the Cultural History of European Jews” to Ezra-Habonim, the Niles Township Jewish Cong.

Thanks to our incredible donors, YIVO has been able to accomplish many great things this year. Here are some of our favorites.

Outside media articles from 2018 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

The little-known history of the pogroms of the Russian Civil War.

The Jury of the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Award is pleased to announce that Dr. Eleonora Bergman and Dr. Tadeusz Epsztein of Warsaw, Poland were named the recipients of the Karski Award for the year 2017.

“There’s no such thing as Jewish music,” claims Neil Levin, music scholar and the Artistic Director of the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music. Levin argues that the music he studies and champions is “music of the Jewish experience.”

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents the “intrepid” (New Yorker) vocal and instrumental chamber ensemble Cantata Profana in Gustav Mahler’s epic song symphony, Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth).

The YIVO Archives is a keystone of our organization. It is a treasure trove of personal and institutional records; every page, every photo, and each art object is not only a remnant of a long-bygone past, but also a treasure of enduring value whose impact extends to our lives today.

Rare and unpublished works represent the collective memory and cultural history of Eastern European and Russian Jews.