YIVO Press Releases

World-renowned historian and human-rights activist Father Patrick Desbois will speak at YIVO on Monday May 6, 2019, 7:00pm.

The 2018-2019 In Dialogue: Polish-Jewish Relations series concludes with a daylong conference that brings together top scholars to discuss Polish-Jewish relations after World War II.

The new album from Cantaloupe Music, created by YIVO’s Director of Public Programs Alex Weiser, is comprised of contemporary classical songs that set Yiddish and English poems to music.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) announces the launch of a new online exhibition, Stories from the Archives: Jewish Immigration to America, featuring artifacts from its extensive migration collections.

The President of the Republic of Lithuania H.E. Ms Dalia Grybauskaitė visited the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York.

This spring, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will host its third annual Children’s Day, a day of activity and cultural immersion for children of all ages.

In October 2018, YIVO welcomed a new addition to its staff, Karolina Ziulkoski, who will serve as Chief Curator of the YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum

YIVO presents a first of its kind conference, Yiddish Anarchism: New Scholarship on a Forgotten Tradition, highlighting emerging new scholarship on the forgotten world of Yiddish-speaking anarchists.

Irene Kronhill Pletka, Vice Chairman of the YIVO Board, was honored at the 2018 Gala and pledged a $1 million gift to kick start support for the Bund Digitization Project.

New York, NY – This fall, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will explore the complicated history of Polish-Jewish relations. It will partner with Fordham University and Columbia University for the “In Dialogue: Polish-Jewish Relations” series, and will present Dariusz Stola, the director of POLIN Museum. This year, tensions between the ...