News & Features

All of YIVO’s online courses are free effective today. As restrictions continue to be imposed to help mitigate the spread of COVID19, “YIVO wants to help keep our spirits lifted and provide content to sustain our minds and soul.”

On Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 7:00pm. YIVO will host Why the Far Right Kills, a discussion between researcher Chip Berlet and journalist Talia Lavin, exploring why the far right political faction, compared to others, is so violent—and what drives them to kill again and again?

Selections from The Polish Jewish Observer, providing insight into the lives of Polish and other European Jews during World War II.

If you’re looking for more to color from the YIVO Library or you missed some of our #ColorOurCollections posts, you can download the entire coloring book now.

Selections from The Polish Jewish Observer, providing insight into the lives of Polish and other European Jews during World War II.

YIVO recently acquired the collection of Noami Aleh-Leaf Halpern, whose dance career spanned seven decades.

YIVO is one of thirteen partner organizations around New York City joining Carnegie Hall in celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.

Thanks to our incredible donors, YIVO has been able to accomplish many great things over the past decade. Here are some of our favorites.

YIVO was recently featured in Buzzfeed’s JPG Newsletter, sent out on December 22, 2019. The newsletter is a roundup of “the internet’s most powerful photographs.”

YIVO congratulates the winners and finalists of the 2019 National Jewish Book Awards.