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When YIVO was established in Vilna 90 years ago, in 1925, Vilna was part of Poland, and was officially known as Wilno. Today, Vilna is known as Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, and YIVO is gradually returning to its roots there, through its joint Vilna Collections project with the Martynas ...

Nachman Blumenthal on role of Jewish police in the ghettos (YIVO on WEVD, 1967).

YIVO on exhibition in Vilnius and Krakow

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents the world premiere of the film No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story. Based on recently-discovered letters by Otto Frank in YIVO’s archives, No Asylum interviews Anne Frank’s surviving family, Buddy Elias and Eva Geiringer-Schloss, about the family’s last efforts to seek refuge in America before going into hiding in 1942. The Frank family was discovered and arrested in 1944.  

German and Jewish labor unions on the Lower East Side: forgotten links.

The role of the Judenrat in the Holocaust.

A paper by Max Weinreich on Ashkanaz, 1100-1300

Archaeologists probe the site of Vilna’s Great Synagogue.

Theodore Bikel (1924 - 2015) sings "Di zun vet aruntergeyn" at the YIVO 13th Annual Heritage Luncheon in his honor on June 18, 2015.

With deepest sympathies, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research announces the passing of Vera Stern (July 11, 1927 - July 21, 2015), widow of Isaac Stern. Beloved mother and grandmother, Mrs. Stern was also a friend and longtime supporter of YIVO. We send our sincerest condolences to her family. To ...