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Paul Alan Levi is a Jewish American composer (b. 1941) who grew up in Inwood, New York City, which at the time was largely comprised of German Jews and Irish Catholics.

If you google the Jewish festival of lights Ḥanukkah, you’ll find descriptions of it which include more than a half dozen different spellings of the word. Why would such a common word have so many spellings, and which one is correct? 

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will be hosting a panel discussion about the impact of recent political events in the United States and the question of how organizations and individuals respond to the emergence of authoritarianism.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will be featuring a concert for the occasion of violinist and champion of Jewish music Yuval Waldman’s 70th birthday.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Neil W. Levin as the Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor in Residence in Music for the Spring semester, February – May 2017, marking YIVO’s first such academic residence in music.

In Yiddish, one colorful way Jews can greet each other is with the saying, “?װאָס מאַכט אַ ייִד” (vos makht a yid?). Literally this means, “what does a Jew make?” Idiomatically it means something like, “what’s doing man?”

A cultural event in Poland during World War I marks the beginning of a new era for Yiddish theater.

A Yiddish book suggests a cure-all for anything that ails you.

Lainie Fefferman is a Jewish American composer who grew up in Princeton New Jersey to a “very nerdy Jewish couple.”

Alex Weiser is a Jewish American composer who grew up in New York City.