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YIVO Receives Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to purchase the materials to rehouse YIVO’s historic Jewish Political and Labor Movement Archives.
Uriel Weinreich Summer Program Testimonial: Howard Brown, ‘75
For Howard, learning Yiddish is the best way to connect with the history and culture of Ashkenazic Jewry.
Uriel Weinreich Summer Program Testimonial: Caleb Sher, ‘22
Caleb's experience in YIVO's Summer program helps him find his Yiddish.
Uriel Weinreich Summer Program Testimonial: Tara Neuwirth, '84 & ‘22
Through two summers studying at YIVO—nearly 40 years apart!—Tara has a life-changing experience.
Uriel Weinreich Summer Program Testimonial: Yulia Oreshina, '21 &‘22
For Yulia, learning Yiddish is a means to resist the language's disappearance in territories where it once flourished.
Uriel Weinreich Summer Program Testimonial: Tamara Helfer, '20, '21, &‘22
Tamara talks about her experience in the Summer Program and how a fun pandemic hobby became a lifelong passion.
Uriel Weinreich Summer Program Testimonial: Graeme Myers ,‘22
YIVO's Summer Program helped Graeme build a sense of community.
YIVO Delegation Visits Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford
YIVO was invited to participate in the prestigious Oxford Literary Festival.
Research Assistant Program
The YIVO Archives has successfully launched a new paid Research Assistant program which pairs patrons with one of YIVO’s highly skilled researchers.
YIVO Catalogs 500 Collections
The YIVO Archives has just completed a project to catalog 500 collections that were donated over the past several years.