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YIVO's 2020 Roundup
2020 was a uniquely challenging year for everyone, but thanks to our incredible members and supporters, YIVO was able to continue in its mission and ensure that our global audience was able to access enriching content. Here’s a few highlights.
2019 and 2020 Jan Karski & Pola Nireńska Award
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce that Professor Daniel Grinberg and Dr hab. Joanna Lisek were named the recipients of the Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Award for the year 2019 and 2020, respectively.
AT THE TURNING POINT, YIVO’s 2021 Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization, to Take Place Online
AT THE TURNING POINT, the 2021 YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization, to be held online this winter (January 5-22, 2021), offers its most stellar lineup of presenters to date, bringing together public intellectuals from Yale Historian Timothy Snyder to former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Grigory Yavlinsky, along with scholars from leading institutions across the globe, from the Bodleian Library (University of Oxford) to the Met Cloisters.
YIVO Hosts Panel on the Resourcefulness of the Historical and Contemporary Jewish Kitchen
On Wednesday, November 18, 2020, at 1:00pm (ET), YIVO will host a panel moderated by Jane Ziegelman and featuring chefs Ari Miller and Jeremy Umansky, looking at fermenting and foraging techniques.
YIVO Revives an Influential Work of the Past: Joel Engel's "Jewish Folksongs" Volumes I & II
On Tuesday, November 10, 2020, at 1:00pm (ET), YIVO will host a digital premiere performance of Joel Engel's "Jewish Folksongs" Volumes I & II, the first classical compositions to employ Yiddish folksongs.
Smithsonian's Folklife Magazine: How Jewish Newspaper Editors Flipped Anti-Semitic Imagery into the First Yiddish Cartoon
YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, How Jewish Newspaper Editors Flipped Anti-Semitic Imagery into the First Yiddish Cartoon, by Eddy Portnoy, Academic Advisor & Exhibitions Curator.
Call for Submissions: American Racist Violence in the Early Twentieth Century
May 31-June 1 2021 will mark the hundredth anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre, a vicious event in which mobs of white residents wielding weapons attacked black residents and businesses in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In memory of this somber occasion and the racially motivated violence that erupted in America in the early twentieth century more broadly, YIVO and In geveb are joining together in an effort to make Yiddish sources about these events more accessible to students, teachers, and researchers.
The Yiddishists: Songs of the Suffragettes
See the eighth article in the Jewish Renaissance column The Yiddishists, delving into the YIVO Archives.