Everyone is invited to join YIVO for a tour of its new YLMC, a publicly accessible space for visitors to come and explore Jewish history and the YIVO Collections.

Moishele Alfonso prepares students to start learning Yiddish with an introduction to the Yiddish alphabet, basic reading, writing, and pronunciation.

Miriam Trinh will discuss her path in life, from Poland to Israel, as well as how she became an expert in Yiddish language and literature.

Join YIVO on a journey of discovery across northern Italy, exploring the fascinating, troubled, and glorious history of Italian Jews in the northern tier, unfamiliar to most of us.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This twice-weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Read, listen to, and talk about short stories, essays, journalistic writing, folklore, and more from a literary and linguistic point of view with Vera Szabó.

Refugees from World War II: Reclaiming the Music of Polish Composers features, among other works, wonderful and compelling Jewish-themed music by Szymon Laks, Mieczysław Weinberg, and Roman Ryterband, all of whom were arrested or fled from Poland during World War II.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Shane Baker explores the short stories of Yiddish writer Avrom Sutzkever, considering his prose from historical, cultural, and literary points of view.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Sarah Ellen Zarrow, in conversation with Jeffrey Shandler, places Jewish ethnographic practice and art collection within a Polish context, and sheds light on ways in which ideas about belonging and national identity were negotiated in museums.

This lecture by William Pimlott tells the story of how YIVO became a global institution and the new and different stories that YIVO's Friend Societies tell about 20th century Jewish history.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Join YIVO for the world premiere production of The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language, a new chamber opera with music by Pulitzer Prize finalist Alex Weiser and libretto by Ben Kaplan, which tells the remarkable true story of Yiddish linguist Yudel Mark’s unfinished effort to create a comprehensive Yiddish dictionary. 

This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is is appropriate for Yiddish students at the advanced level.

This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

In this talk, Sandra Fox will discuss how the founders and leaders of Camp Hemshekh embraced the sleepaway camp as a potential cure for Yiddish cultural and linguistic decline, and how they created a new purpose for and style of Yiddishism for the postwar moment.

Explore the historical connection between YIVO and the Oyneg Shabes Archive—the secret archive organized by Emanuel Ringelblum in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Henry H. Sapoznik offers a vivid and entertaining look at New York’s lush Ashkenazic past and present that showcases the culture’s persistent resiliency, in a conversation led by Eddy Portnoy.

Miriam Udel, in conversation with Marjorie Ingall, shows how Yiddish authors confronted practical limits on their ability to forge a fully realized nation of their own and focused instead on making a symbolic and conceptual world for Jewish children to inhabit with dignity, justice, and joy.

Halina Goldberg, Glenn Dynner, Beth Holmgren, and Eliza Rose highlight a newly published volume about the Jewish inn, a central pillar of economic and social life in Polish lands before World War II.

Join YIVO Director of Collections Stefanie Halpern for a discussion that highlights how 100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research traces the organization’s role in documenting key moments in modern Jewish history and culture through its 100 years of collecting.

Saulius Sužiedėlis discusses his new book, the first scholarly English-language study of Lithuania during World War II, which utilizes previously inaccessible archives and academic works, in a conversation led by Jonathan Brent.

Steven J. Zipperstein, author of Philip Roth: Stung by Life, and Peter Cole, translator of Hayim Nahman Bialik’s On the Slaughter, explore their newly published books.

Join YIVO for a Yiddish evening celebrating our 100th anniversary, featuring Samuel Kassow, Cecile Kuznitz, Zalmen Mlotek, David Roskies, and others. This program will take place in Yiddish.

Stefanie Halpern, Eddy Portnoy, and Jonathan Brent discuss YIVO’s latest publication, a gorgeously illustrated coffee table book that highlights unique manuscripts, photographs, objects, and other ephemera from YIVO’s collections.

Please join us for an evening celebrating a century of preserving and perpetuating Eastern European Jewish language, history, and culture.

Shaul Stampfer, Lara Lempert, Tzipora Weinberg, and Daniel Reiser reflect on their new volume, which addresses religious life of the Lithuanian Jewish community over time.

In a conversation led by Samuel Kassow, Steven D. Meed discusses his new translation of Vladka Meed’s memoir, which details how she served in the Warsaw ghetto’s Jewish underground by passing as a Christian outside its walls.

Elissa Bemporad, Mikhl Yashinsky, and Glenn Dynner explore two new translations from YIVO’s Yiddish Voices series, The Destruction of Dubova by Rokhl Faygenberg and The Mother of Yiddish Theater by Ester-Rokhl Kaminska.

Zofia Hartman, in conversation with Agnieszka Legutko, discusses how consul of the Empire of Japan in Kaunas, Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara, saved several thousand Jews during the Holocaust by issuing transit visas.

Ryan MacEvoy McCullough performs Juliusz Wolfsohn’s Paraphrasen, a collection of 12 virtuosic piano fantasies based on Yiddish folksongs.