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2016-2017 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows
List of recipients of YIVO’s 2016-2017 faculty and graduate student fellowships.
Scraps of Paper Illuminate Life As It Was Lived
YIVO’s VILBIG collection sheds light on education for the Jewish masses in prewar Eastern Europe.
New York’s Yiddish Theater: Interview with Edna Nahshon
Interview with Edna Nahshon, curator of the Yiddish theater exhibition at the Museum of the City of NY.
Looking back: First YIVO Summer Yiddish program (1968)
YIVO’s intensive Yiddish summer program was founded 48 years ago.
Calculating the Rhythms of Jewish Life
Very few of the Hebrew books in the Strashun Library collection have illustrations. But this one does: beautiful charts for calculating Jewish time.
YIVO’s New Exhibition on Jewish Comedians of the 20th Century
Jerry Lewis, art by Drew Friedman. Courtesy of Drew Friedman. New York, NY (February 11, 2016) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research's newest exhibition, Professional Jokers: Jewish Jesters from the Golden Age of American Comedy. Professional Jokers opens at 6:00 pm on Monday, February 29, at YIVO (located at 15 ...
Yudel Mark Discusses the Czernowitz Conference
Yudel Mark discusses the importance of the Czernowitz Conference, the first international conference devoted to Yiddish.
“This is What Researchers Dream About Finding”: A Fragment About "The Dybbuk"
A review of a Hebrew-language performance of “The Dybbuk” provides the occasion for a manifesto on language in the performing arts.
How Jewish Scholars Helped Save Karaites from the Nazis
A YIVO collection bears witness to the quiet heroism of Jewish scholars who helped Karaites evade murder by the Nazis.