News & Features

Two hundred years ago, Jewish women had to struggle for the right to work as teachers (or even to obtain an education), as attested to by these notes for a study on the subject.

On Wednesday, July 31, 2019, YIVO presents a rehearsed reading of Leon Kobrin’s 1912 play Breach of Promise—a tragicomic slice of tenement life in New York City. 

YIVO’s first feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, Yiddish Wedding Hop: The Archives of Song Collector Ruth Rubin, by YIVO Sound Archivists Eléonore Biezunski and Lorin Sklamberg.

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

Jonathan Brent, the Executive Director and CEO of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, was conferred the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania by H.E. Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has just received the archive of noted historian, scholar, and Holocaust survivor Nachman Blumental.

YIVO announces a new lecture series introducing audiences to some of the breadth and depth of Yiddish civilization in Eastern Europe, New York, and around the world.

On May 24, 2019, Renee Miller, volunteer archivist and a treasured and beloved member of YIVO’s family, passed away after battling cancer.

YIVO opened its first in-house digital lab to coordinate the digitization, online accessibility, and digital preservation of the remaining collections of the Edward Blank Vilna Online Collections Project, as well as all future projects.

What sort of information can be gleaned from an old program brochure from 1921?