News & Features

Faced with the pandemic and the necessity of social distancing this March, YIVO quickly pivoted to online programming in order to provide for our community—both local and global. Here’s a roundup of our recent literature-related programs.

120 students graduated from The Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, the world’s longest-running Yiddish summer program.

Faced with the pandemic and the necessity of social distancing this March, YIVO quickly pivoted to online programming in order to provide for our community—both local and global. Here’s a roundup of our recent music-related programs.

Ben Kaplan speaks with popular chefs, restaurateurs, and scholars on the topic of Jewish food, and to find out what they have been cooking while home.

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

YIVO Institute For Jewish Research presents A Seat at the Table: A Journey Into Jewish Food, featuring acclaimed chefs, cookbook authors, scholars, restaurateurs, & writers.

On Thursday, June 30, 2020, at 4:00pm (EDT), YIVO will host a digital musical performance preview, Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music, featuring five world premiere compositions commissioned by YIVO.

The response to the many new online initiatives that YIVO has launched since mid-March has truly been humbling and inspiring.

YIVO grieves for George Floyd’s family, the Minneapolis community, and our country. We stand together with every organization fighting for an anti-racist future.

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, Summer of Peace, Love, and Yiddish Song: The Legacy of New York’s Camp Boiberik, by Olivia Reid, Research and Project Specialist.