YIVO Press Releases

For Russian Heritage Month, YIVO and the Russian American Foundation host a two-night film festival featuring documentaries depicting the era of the Russian cultural migration and the people who defined it.

The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania has awarded 30,000 Euros for work in Lithuania for the Vilna Collections Project.

Reviving a partnership dating back to just after WWII, Yad Vashem becomes an institutional partner on the YIVO Vilna Collections project.

The National Endowment for the Humanities’s Division of Preservation and Access has awarded $260,000 for the YIVO Vilna Collections project.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Samuel Kassow as the 2016 Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar in East European Jewish History.

Judith Berkson presents arrangements of cantorial music from YIVO’s sound archives, including unreleased and rare recordings. Frank London (trumpet), Cleek Schrey (Hardanger d'amore fiddle), and Lana Cencic (with Berkson on, Farfisa and Viscount vintage analog organs, vocals and effects) are the ensemble.