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The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Neil W. Levin as the Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor in Residence in Music for the Spring semester, February – May 2017, marking YIVO’s first such academic residence in music.

In Yiddish, one colorful way Jews can greet each other is with the saying, “?װאָס מאַכט אַ ייִד” (vos makht a yid?). Literally this means, “what does a Jew make?” Idiomatically it means something like, “what’s doing man?”

A cultural event in Poland during World War I marks the beginning of a new era for Yiddish theater.

A Yiddish book suggests a cure-all for anything that ails you.

Lainie Fefferman is a Jewish American composer who grew up in Princeton New Jersey to a “very nerdy Jewish couple.”

Alex Weiser is a Jewish American composer who grew up in New York City.

David Hertzberg is a Jewish American composer, currently living in Los Angeles, the city in which he was raised.

Alyssa Weinberg is a Jewish American composer who grew up in Long Island, New York.

A 1937 list recommends books that every good Yiddish library should have on its shelves.

A scholar uses the history of Jewish conversions to Catholicism  to shed light on ethnic identity in Lithuania before the Holocaust.