YIVO Press Releases

YIVO is participating in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which will take place June 29-July 4 and July 6-9, 2023 at the National Mall in Washington, DC.

On June 12, 2023, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Executive Director and CEO Jonathan Brent participated in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) first plenary of the year.

Returning for its fifth year, YIVO’s Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series introduces audiences to the breadth and depth of Yiddish civilization in Eastern Europe, New York, and around the world.

YIVO is delighted to announce that David Braun has been named by the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies as the Academic Advisor in Yiddish Language, Pedagogy, and Linguistics.

YIVO and the National Library of Israel (NLI) are delighted to announce the completion of the digitization of the Papers of Chaim Grade and Inna Hecker Grade. Making this collection available online will enrich the lives of lovers of Jewish and Yiddish literature throughout the world.

YIVO is delighted to announce the initiation of a new project to digitize its Jewish Labor and Political Archive. This will be an eight-year project to conserve, process, digitize, and make available online free-of-charge its collections documenting Jewish political, labor, and social movements in the United States and Europe from 1870 to 1992.

YIVO is delighted to announce a $2.5 million grant from the Seedlings Foundation to support two important projects: the creation of a YIVO Learning and Media Center (YLMC), and the digitization of an important part of YIVO’s Holocaust collection, the largest collection of Holocaust materials in the world outside of Yad Vashem in Israel.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce the addition of Ambassador Eric Rubin to its Board of Directors.

YIVO is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition, After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The exhibition will run from January 10 – February 23, 2023.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research announces a grant award totaling $80,000 from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support the recovery of the nonprofit arts and culture sector.