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On Friday, July 28, 2023, 82 students graduated from The Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, the world’s longest-running Yiddish summer program.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for $349,524 to process and digitize four collections focused on the Jewish immigrant involvement in the labor movement in the United States.

Neil W. Levin, YIVO's Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music, explores the first Yiddish opera, King Ahaz (Melekh Akhaz), composed in 1911 by Samuel Alman.

YIVO is participating in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which will take place June 29-July 4 and July 6-9, 2023 at the National Mall in Washington, DC.

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, A Song Still Vital: Preserving and Reviving Yiddish Folk Music, by Alex Weiser, Director of Public Programs.

The Board of Directors and staff of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research express our deep sorrow at the passing of our dear colleague Chava Lapin z”l.

On June 12, 2023, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Executive Director and CEO Jonathan Brent participated in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) first plenary of the year.

Returning for its fifth year, YIVO’s Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series introduces audiences to the breadth and depth of Yiddish civilization in Eastern Europe, New York, and around the world.

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

YIVO is delighted to announce that David Braun has been named by the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies as the Academic Advisor in Yiddish Language, Pedagogy, and Linguistics.