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An intriguing artifact reveals how much we still don’t know about the past.

YIVO commemorates Sholem Aleichem’s hundredth yortsayt with a new exhibition featuring materials from the newly acquired Sholem Aleichem Family Archive. To kick off this exhibition, YIVO is hosting two Sholem Aleichem tribute events.

Alyssa Quint Named YIVO’s First Vilna Collections Scholar Alyssa Quint, YIVO’s First Vilna Collections Scholar. New York, New York - The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce a three-year, $75,000 grant for a new scholar-in-residence. The Vilna Collections Scholar will contextualize the archival and library materials in YIVO’s Vilna ...

Back in 1968, there was a Yiddish course for high school students in New York City.

A Haggadah from 1830 is familiar in more ways than one.

Three women who were close to YIVO passed away last month: Rose Klepfisz, Pearl Sapoznik, Yael Penkower.

YIVO’s archives contain the last traces of the lost world of Polish Jewish children.

New York, NY– YIVO and ASJM present: A Musical Journey from Russia, a concert highlighting the work of the Society for Jewish Folk Music on Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 at 6:30pm at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011). The Society for Jewish Folk Music ...

YIVO has been active for decades in the teaching of Yiddish and the documentation of Yiddish culture.

A photograph from the Esther Rokhl Kaminska Theater Museum provides a glimpse of Jewish life in Chicago in the 1920s.