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As part of the YIVO Jewish Culture Series, Dr. Jonathan Brent, Executive Director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Dr. Steven M. Cohen, Research Professor of Jewish Social Policy, Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute for Religion, and Rabbi Thomas A. Gardner of Riverdale Temple, address widespread concerns about the state of American Jewry today.

“I told them of the wonders of the Jerusalem of Lithuania”: A 1938 Letter to Chaim Grade

YIVO co-produces and premieres No Asylum, a documentary on Otto Frank’s efforts to save his family.

Former Treasury Secretary and President Emeritus of Harvard University, Summers, discusses the growing concerns of anti-Semitism on college campuses amidst the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

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.