Join YLMC Educator Susannah Trubman for a two-hour walking tour dedicated to the history of the Yiddish theater in the Lower East Side.

Samuel Kassow investigates YIVO’s Hersh Wasser collection and the insights it offers into the workings of the Oyneg Shabes archive that was organized in the Warsaw Ghetto, one of the most successful examples of cultural resistance in all of Nazi-occupied Europe.

Mikołaj Łoziński, in a conversation led by Irena Grudzinska Gross, tells the tragic story of the interwar years in Poland through the ordinary triumphs and struggles of a sprawling Polish-Jewish family.

Joshua Meyers provides an overview of the Bund, rooted not in our world or imaginations, but in the reality of the party’s own members, while exploring its legacy and that of Diaspora Socialism in the 21st century.

Directed by Mikhl Yashinsky, this classic play reading will feature a telling of Sh. An-ski’s legendary 1916 folk drama of spiritual possession and predestined love.

Join YIVO for a screening of Jan Němec’s Diamonds of the Night, a film about two young Jewish men who escape from a train taking them to their death.

In a discussion moderated by Annie Polland, Tony Michels, Sam Adler Bell, and Hasia Diner reflect on the legacy of Irving Howe’s World of Our Fathers, a classic history of Eastern European Jewish immigrant life in America.

This talk by Anita Norich will trace the development of Yiddish literature from the early nineteenth century onward, examining its major writers, movements, and cultural contexts.

Performed by students from the Mannes School of Music, this concert celebrates the legacy of Jewish composers who fled Nazi persecution in Germany, Austria, France, and elsewhere.

Join us for a documentary about the Polish Jewish vegetarian chef Fania Lewando, who operated a Vilna restaurant frequented by a variety of celebrity guests, including Marc Chagall and Jonas Turkow.

Celebrate the release of the two latest volumes in YIVO and Bloomsbury Academic’s Yiddish Voices series – Mississippi: A Yiddish Play about the Scottsboro Affair and Hasidic Warsaw: Reb Zalmen and the Aleksander Shtibl.

Dovid Katz provides an introduction to Yiddish’s origins, evolution, dialects, literature, and cultural history, separating enduring scholarly consensus from persistent myths and debates.

Always a popular event, the annual Hanukkah concert celebrates this joyous holiday with music, story, and song.

Drawing on children’s diaries, letters, testimonies, and memoirs, Joanna Beata Michlic illuminates how children experienced and remembered trauma under Nazi occupation, in a conversation led by Samuel Kassow. 

Join YLMC Educator Susannah Trubman for a two-hour walking tour dedicated to the history of the Yiddish theater in the Lower East Side.

Jonathan Brent, Gal Beckerman, and Rabbi David Ingber explore what it means to protect culture in a time of war, why archives matter long before they become history, and how preserving the stories, voices, and artifacts of the past becomes an act of resilience — and, ultimately, of hope.

Enjoy a documentary tracing the history of Yiddish theater from its origins in Eastern Europe and early developments in America to the present day, detailing how musicians with humble origins became the voices of an entire immigrant generation.

Have yourself a very Jewish Christmas with YIVO and learn about how Christmas celebrations once flourished in the Yiddish language. A kosher Chinese food dinner will follow the presentation.

Join us for an evening exploring the musical legacy of the Third Seder, the secular Passover celebration that became a vibrant feature of Yiddish cultural life in twentieth-century America.

Join YIVO for an enlightening journey to Lithuania and Poland. Reclaim your heritage as you examine the life that was lived in these lands. View the remarkable history of old Warsaw, Kraków, Vilnius, and Białowieża.

Join YIVO on a journey of discovery across northern Italy, exploring the fascinating, troubled, and glorious history of Italian Jews in the northern tier, unfamiliar to most of us.

Join YIVO for its first-ever tour of Israel where we will learn the fascinating story of Yiddish culture in the Jewish state.