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This short item ran in Yedies in June 1964.

Outside media articles from 2014 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

Rising Yiddish musician Benjy Fox-Rosen releases Two Worlds/Tsvey Veltn (Golden Horn Records), a stunning new song cycle based on the poetry of master Yiddish and Polish writer Mordechai Gebirtig (1877-1942) at a ticketed concert on January 15, 2014, at 7pm at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (15 West 16th ...

In this episode of YIVO’s radio program, Moses (Moyshe) Kligsberg talks about YIVO’s Conference on Jewish Participation in Movements Devoted to the Cause of Social Progress, which took place in Carnegie Hall on September 10-13, 1964. Maida Feingold sings “Zamd un Shtern” (Sand and Stars) and “Brukh Shulman,” two songs ...

On December 21, former YIVO assistant sound archivist Jenny Romaine was honored by the Adrienne Cooper Dreaming in Yiddish Fund at the second annual memorial concert in honor of the late Adrienne Cooper, a former assistant director at YIVO. The writer and performer Ezra Berkley Nepon pays homage to Jenny ...

In March 1951, Yedies gave this blow-by-blow account of how YIVO’s library and archives fell into the hands of the Nazis and were then rescued, in part, with the help of the U.S. Army, the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), and the Library of Congress. The books and documents were brought ...

YIVO’s library and archives holds important books and artifacts related to Sephardic Jewish heritage.

NEW YORK, NY – The YIVO Institute is pleased to announce that it has received two generous grants for work on the Sutzkever-Kaczerginski Collection, which contains some of the rarest documents held in the YIVO archives. The Collection is named in honor of the two distinguished poets who headed the ...

Mikhl Herzog, 1927-2013 On Sunday, January 5, 2014, at 1:00 pm, YIVO will celebrate the life, work, and contributions to Yiddish culture of Mikhl Herzog, in a special memorial program. Mikhl Herzog (1927-2013) was the founding Dean of the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at YIVO, and the editor-in-chief of ...

פֿון איציק גאָטעסמאַן

The field of Yiddish studies was well represented at the annual Association for Jewish Studies conference in Boston, Dec. 15 - 17, 2013. Yiddish literature in particular has attracted many scholars around the world. (First of a two-part report)

יעדעס יאָר טרעפֿט זיך די „אַסאָציאַציע פֿון ייִדישע שטודיעס" (Association for Jewish Studies) אין מיטן דעצעמבער, און געוויינטלעך, קומט מען זיך צונויף אין באָסטאָן. הונדערטער פּראָפֿעסאָרן און סטודענטן האַלטן רעפֿעראַטן אויף די טעמעס פֿון זייער פֿאָרשונג, און די צאָל מענטשן, וועלכע פֿאַרנעמען זיך מיט פֿאָרשונגען וועגן ייִדיש איז אַ ממשותדיקע, בפֿרט וועגן דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור.

אין איין סעסיע מכּוח די ביאָגראַפֿיעס פֿון ייִדישע שרײַבערס, האָבן דרײַ לעקטאָרן באַהאַנדלט זייערע פֿאָרשונגען פֿון דרײַ מחברים — איציק מאַנגער, יעקבֿ אַבראַמאָוויטש (מענדעלע מוכר־ספֿרים) און שלום ראַבינאָוויטש (שלום־עליכם). פּראָפֿ׳ מאַריאָן אַפּטרוט האָט געפֿירט דעם פֿאָרזיץ.