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YIVO Presents: A Taste of Rome’s Historic Jewish Cuisine With Leah Koenig
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce its upcoming program, A Taste of Rome’s Historic Jewish Cuisine with celebrated cookbook author Leah Koenig, taking place on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 1:00pm (ET).
2021-2022 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows
List of recipients of YIVO’s 2021-2022 faculty and graduate student fellowships.
YIVO Presents: Leftists on Left-Wing Antisemitism
YIVO is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Leftists on Left-Wing Antisemitism, featuring a unique panel of four scholars, journalists, and activists on the Left.
Carnegie Hall’s Voices of Hope comes to YIVO: Cry, My Heart, Cry
YIVO is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Cry, My Heart, Cry: Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive, Vol. 2, celebrating the new album release produced by D. Zisl Slepovitch.
YIVO Presents: Continuing Evolution 2: Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music
On Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at 1:00pm (EDT), YIVO will host the digital musical performance premiere, Continuing Evolution 2: Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music. This event will feature five world premiere compositions commissioned for the occasion by YIVO.
Carnegie Hall’s Voices of Hope comes to YIVO: Sutzkever Essential Prose
YIVO is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Sutzkever Essential Prose, celebrating Zackary Sholem Berger’s new book translating prose by famed Yiddish poet, partisan, and holocaust survivor Avrom Sutzkever.
Musical Shadows of the Warsaw Ghetto: A "New Haggada" and the Sanctity of Memory
To commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19, Neil W. Levin—YIVO's Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music—has written a comprehensive article for us, titled: MUSICAL SHADOWS OF THE WARSAW GHETTO—A "New Haggada" and the Sanctity of Memory.
Nazi-Looted Art and Archives: Recovering and Preserving Jewish Culture
Jonathan Brent (YIVO’s Executive Director and CEO) and Howard Spiegler (co-chair of Herrick, Feinstein LLP’s Art Law Group) discuss the quest to recover and preserve the cultural treasures lost and stolen during the Holocaust and post-World War II.
Smithsonian Voices: How the Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl Inspired an Exhibition
YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Voices, How the Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl Inspired an Exhibition, by Karolina Ziulkoski, Director of Digital and Chief Curator.
Joint Statement on the Trial of the Polish Scholars
The Center for Jewish History and its partner organizations—The American Jewish Historical Society, The American Sephardi Federation, The Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research—protest the recent trial in Poland of the eminent scholars, Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski.