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Uriel Weinreich, the famed linguist and lexicographer, died young.

Fragments of the records of the Nazi agency charged with looting Jewish cultural treasures can be found among YIVO’s recovered collections in Vilnius.

A new book explores the prominent role played by Jews in photography in Britain.

For Russian Heritage Month, YIVO and the Russian American Foundation host a two-night film festival featuring documentaries depicting the era of the Russian cultural migration and the people who defined it.

The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania has awarded 30,000 Euros for work in Lithuania for the Vilna Collections Project.

Today's episode was originally broadcast on March 24, 1968. Host Luba Condell is joined by Ezekiel Lifschutz for a talk about Abraham Goldfaden (considered the “father of Yiddish theater”). Condell and Lifschutz trace the origins of Yiddish theater in the purim-shpil (Purim play) and its development into full-scale theater productions. ...

A German-Hebrew bible becomes a tool in the hands of maskilim, reformist activists of the Haskalah.

Reviving a partnership dating back to just after WWII, Yad Vashem becomes an institutional partner on the YIVO Vilna Collections project.

The National Endowment for the Humanities’s Division of Preservation and Access has awarded $260,000 for the YIVO Vilna Collections project.

YIVO has a long tradition of creating educational resources for all levels of schooling.