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Whether you want to focus on Yiddish fluency, reading, conversation, or culture, we have the class for you. This fall we are offering a variety of courses, held on Zoom or in person. Join us and students from around the world!

Register for YIVO's Fall Classes!

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Marek Tuszewicki unveils Ashkenazi Jewish folk medicine in historical, cultural, and social contexts, going beyond the stigma of harmful superstition to understand it in connection with other aspects of daily life.

Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe

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YIVO has completed a historic 7-year, $7 million initiative to process, conserve and digitize YIVO’s divided prewar library and archival collections. These materials are now digitally reunited through a dedicated web portal and are accessible to worldwide for the first time.

YIVO Completes Landmark Digitzation and Preservation Project

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Among the materials being digitized as part of the Jewish Labor and Political Archive is the final letter of Shmuel Zygielbojm, a member of the Bund's Central Committee who begged sought aid for Polish Jewry only to find his pleas fell on deaf ears.

Shmuel Zygielbojm's Final Statement

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Prolific Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer passed away on July 24, 1991. He was the only Yiddish writer to win a Nobel Prize.

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This menorah bong was created by Dave Daily, the owner of Grav, and constructed with the artist Charlie Glass. It inspired YIVO’s exhibit, "Am Yisrael High: the Story of Jews and Cannabis" and is now in YIVO's collections.

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“Fascism must be smashed.” Cover of Yugnt shtime (Voice of the Youth), a mimeographed underground Yiddish newspaper put out by the Bund’s youth group Tsukunft, Warsaw ghetto, January–February 1941. #fromtheyivoarchives #bund #yiddishnewspaper

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Scholars Jan Grabowksi and Barbara Engelking were found guilty of defamation in Poland for their book documenting Polish behavior towards Jews during the Holocaust. Prof. Grabowski will discuss his response to the verdict as well as its political and scholarly implications.

Holocaust Scholarship on Trial

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Yiddish version of the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. New York, 1892. From the YIVO Archives.

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Researcher Chip Berlet and journalist Talia Lavin will discuss the Far Right’s themes of demonization, scapegoating, conspiracism and apocalypticism and offer their perspectives on how to deal with this toxic social current.

Why the Far Right Kills | Tuesday March 10, 7:00pm

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Congratulations to Pammy Brenner on her engagement this Sunday! So moving to learn that David chose to hold the big moment in a location so dear to her heart, the Reading Room, where she spent many hours as an Irene Kronhill Pletka YIVO Research Fellow from 2018-2020!

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YIVO mourns the passing of Professor Gershon Hundert, a brilliant scholar of Polish Jewry whose unparalleled contributions to the field continue to resonate. May his memory be a blessing.

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Jeffrey Herf examines and challenges misconceptions about who supported and who opposed the Zionist project before, during, and after Israel's founding.

A History of the Establishment of the State of Israel

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Reb Khaim Yekhiel, an 80-year-old shames (sexton) of a Warsaw synagogue lighting candles for the souls of the dead on the eve of Yom Kippur. Warsaw. Published in the Forward 10.13.1929. Photo by Alter Kacyzne.

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From All of Us at YIVO, We Wish You a Happy, Healthy, Sweet New Year! Photo: Greetings of the children of School Number 25 in the Lodz Ghetto, September 1941. Nachman Zonabend Collection. #fromtheyivoarchives

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Mass demonstration in NYC commemorating the first anniversary of the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto, on April 19, 1944. Over 30,000 Jews gathered before the steps of City Hall and listened to speeches by Mayor La Guardia and prominent Jewish leaders.

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Man building a Sukkah before the Sukkot in Hallein DP Camp. Austria, ca. 1945-1951. #fromtheyivoarchives

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The eight-year project, the largest in YIVO's history, will 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 Announces Project to Digitize Jewish Labor and Political Archive

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Here's a full list of the scholars joining us for the Yiddish Anarchism Conference: Kenyon Zimmer, Tom Goyens, Anna Elena Torres, Mark Grueter, Nina Gurianova, Ben Gidley, Reynolds Hahamovitch, Lilian Türk, Diana Clarke, and Anatole Dolgoff.

Yiddish Anarchism: New Scholarship on a Forgotten Tradition

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Yiddish version of the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. New York, 1892. #fromtheyivoarchives #usconstitution #declarationofindependence #independenceday #july4 #fourthofjuly #yiddish #yiddishlanguage

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~170,000 docs that survived the Holocaust found, to be digitized for the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collection Project.

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The July 1939 edition of TheAnti-Nazi Bulletin, published by the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League which encouraged the boycotting of Nazi-made products. #fromtheyivoarchives #jewishhistory #holocaust #antinazibulletin

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Elaine Leeder examines how eight Jewish women, who identified as anarchists in the 1920s to 1950s, sought to maintain complete equality of the sexes through economic independence and maintaining non-conformist sexual relationships.

Jewish Anarchist Women 1920-1950: The Politics of Sexuality

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"The project, the largest archival digitization project in the history of the Jewish research institute, will shine a light on the Jewish Labor Bund, whose archives survived the Nazis and form the core of the collection."

YIVO will digitize a trove of Jewish leftist history - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

An eight-year project will ease access to material on the Jewish Labor Bund, from labor protests to Yiddish-language education to anti-Nazi resistance.

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Blowing the shofar at the end of Yom Kippur. Germany, ca 1945-1948. #yomkippur #fromtheyivoarchives #yivoarchives #jewishhistory #shofar #shofarblowing #yomkippur #dayofatonement

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November 1927 cover of the New York Communist monthly magazine Der hammer (The Hammer).

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Members of the Paper Brigade who risked their lives to rescue Jewish culture from destruction by the Nazis. (Left to right) Abraham Sutzkever, Pupke-Welz, and Shmerke Kaczerginski, in the Vilna Ghetto, July 20, 1943

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Award winning producer, author, and ethnomusicologist Henry Sapoznik looks at the phenomenon of African American musicians who performed Yiddish and cantorial music in and for the Jewish community.

The Lost World of African American Cantors 1915-1953

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A Matzah baker loads dough into an oven. Lida, March 14, 1926. Photo by Alter Kacyzne. #fromtheyivoarchives #passover #pesach #peysekh #matzah #alterkacyzne

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The Yiddish for English speakers course on Duolingo is currently in development. Vote now on which dialect they should use for the audio and pronunciation portions. We know which dialect we'll be voting for!

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“We have watched in horror as a new stage in antisemitic discourse has spread like wildfire on one of America’s largest social media networks.”

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On August 12, 1952, known as the Night of the Murdered Poets, Stalin murdered the members of the Jewish Antifascist Committee. Learn more about the poetry of Peretz Markish, one of the poets murdered on this day.

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Yiddish version of the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, New York, 1892. #fromtheyivoarchives

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Ad for Manischewitz Gefilte Fish ca 1948. #fromtheyivoarchives #roshhashanah #jewishnewyear

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Jeffrey Herf examines the events before, during, and after the State of Israel's founding, challenging misconceptions about who supported and who opposed the Zionist project.

A History of the Establishment of the State of Israel

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The Louvre now has a dedicated space for Nazi-looted art in its collection in hopes of finding the rightful heirs.

The Louvre Puts Nazi-Looted Art in Public Eye in Effort to Find Rightful Heirs

The museum hopes the initiative will help connect the works to their legitimate owners. But critics say the move is too little, too late

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Avrom Sutzkever passed away #onthisday in 2010. With the Paper Brigade, he risked his life to smuggle books into the Vilna Ghetto so the Nazis would not destroy them. (L to R) Paper Brigade members Abraham Sutzkever, Pupke-Welz, and Shmerke Kaczerginski. Vilna, July 20, 1943

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Uncover the profound stories shared in Remembering Vilna, a podcast that brings to life the history of Vilna's Jewish community during WWII.

Remembering Vilna: The Fortunoff Archive's New Podcast

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Blowing the shofar at the end of Yom Kippur. Germany, ca 1945-1948. #fromtheyivoarchives

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"Most people don’t know that the global Jewish population still has not recovered from that catastrophe — in 1939, there were about 17 million Jews in the world, and today there are 15 million."

Not every tragedy is the Holocaust. Here’s why that’s important. | Column

“The Holocaust should never invite comparison, even when used to better understand the characteristics of genocide at-large.”

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Have yourself a little Yiddish this Halloween with our new skeleton posters!

Yiddish Skeleton Poster

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Boy with baked matzot in the Salzburg-Parsch DP Camp in Austria, 1947. #fromtheyivoarchives

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Tony Michels explores what drew Jews to the garment industry in the early 1900s and how it became a hotbed of social protest.

Clothing, Crime and Class Conflict: Jews in the 'Shmate' Trade

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The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook is back in print! Order your copy today.

The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook | ORDER TODAY

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Anita Norich examines works by Yiddish writers (in English translation) who came to the U.S. and reflected both on the European past and American present and future.

American Yiddish Short Stories

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Go beyond the stigma of harmful superstition with Marek Tuszewicki to explore Ashkenazi Jewish folk medicine in historical, cultural, and social contexts.

Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe

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Zivia Lubetkin, along with a network of female couriers, or kashariyot, who smuggled weapons into the ghetto, are part of a largely-overlooked chronicle of women in the Holocaust.

Women’s experience in Holocaust is focus of new book by survivor turned scholar

On the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, British Agnes Grunwald-Spier calls attention to the women who fought to help the Jewish people survive

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Retracing the history of forced labor camp Treblinka I, extermination camp Treblinka II, and a railway station at the village of Treblinka, Elżbieta Janicka explores geographic, topographic, social, economic, political, culture, and religious contexts of Treblinka.

Treblinka and Its Contexts – Past and Present

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Explore the music, folktales, rituals, and superstitions of Jewish Eastern Europe with Professor Itzik Gottesman and featuring special guests.

Register for this free, self-paced, online course!

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Elżbieta Janicka explores the geographic, topographic, social, economic, political, cultural, and religious contexts of Treblinka.

Treblinka and Its Contexts – Past and Present

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Between 1940 and 1944, four Spanish priests based in Paris forged baptismal and wedding certificates for more than 150 Jews to protect them from persecution.

Spanish priests in Paris in WWII saved over 130 Jews with forged baptism

All the documents were signed by the same four priests: Joaquin Aller, Ignacio Turrillas, Emilio Martin e Gilberto Valtierra.

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Naomi Seidman explores Yiddish translations of the New Testament at this year's Jewish Christmas event. A kosher Chinese food dinner will follow the presentation.

A Very Jewish Christmas: When Jesus Spoke Yiddish

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"Living in a ghetto under Nazi occupation with not just their lives but culture under attack, a small group of writers and activists decided to smuggle or hide as many cultural artifacts as they could to save them from being destroyed or repurposed..."

'Book Smugglers' exhibit at Holocaust Center explores Lithuania town's quest to save its culture

During WWII, a "Paper Brigade" of about 40 writers, educators and activists worked to save important Jewish books and art in Lithuania from the Nazis.

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"[YIVO] will digitize the Jewish Labor Bund archive, some 3.5 million pages of documents, photos, flyers and correspondence from revolutionary leaders...making these artifacts accessible to anyone with an internet connection."

YIVO to digitize millions of documents from Jewish Labor Bund

YIVO will transfer countless documents, photos, letters and ephemera from the Bund into its online archives.

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The story of @yivoinstitute , the Paper Brigade, and the rescue of Jewish artifacts and culture featured in a segment on @60Minutes on @CBSNews is available to view now:

The Paper Brigade: Rescuing cultural artifacts during and after WWII

A group of writers and intellectuals living in what is now Vilnius, Lithuania, risked their lives to save Jewish culture and history.

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May Day poster from a Displaced Persons Camp in Austria. #mayday #otd #onthisday #fromtheyivoarchives

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Youth activists with a flag marching at a Bund May Day Rally. Warsaw, Poland, May 1, 1936. #fromtheyivoarchives #mayday #bund #onthidday #otd #thisdayinhistory

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We are digitizing 3.5 million documents from the Jewish Labor and Political Archive and making them available online free of charge. These invaluable materials contain correspondence between Jewish leaders, documentation on clandestine revolutionary cells, and more.

With your support, we will make these historical documents available.

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Chanukah celebration, Fürstenfeldbruck Displaced Persons Camp. Germany, ca 1950. #chanukah #hanukkah #khanike #fromtheyivoarchives #displacedpersons #dpcamp

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At the Jewish Teachers Seminary group portrait of the cast, in costumes, of a Purim play directed by Dr. Max Weinreich, Moshe (Moses) Kulbak and Dr. Rosenthal. Vilna, Poland. #fromtheyivoarchives #purim #jewishholidays

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Come see our newest exhibition featuring rare, vintage Yiddish typewriters -- some of them more than a century old -- and original typescripts by famous Yiddish writers.

Now on View at YIVO

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Delve into Modern Jewish France or Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust in this spring's English seminars.

Seminars & Electives (in English)

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Hasidic musicians outside the 'rebe's house on the day of his daughter's wedding. Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland, published in the Forward on March 29, 1925. #fromtheyivoarchives #onthisday #otd #jewishhistory #wedding

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Happy Independence Day! Yiddish version of the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. New York, 1892. #fromtheyivoarchives #july4 #independenceday

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Children at a Shavuot celebration in the Leipheim DP Camp in Germany. #fromtheyivoarchives #dpcamp #displacedpersons #shavuot #shavues #jewishholiday

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Yiddish writer and Nobel Prize Winner Isaac Bashevis Singer passed away on this day in 1991. Photo: Union of Jewish Writers and Journalists of Warsaw membership card of Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991).

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Join us for the American premiere of this documentary film telling the story of musician and scholar Moyshe Beregovsky. During the most dramatic years of Soviet history, he crisscrossed Ukraine to record and study the traditional music of Ukrainian Jewry.

Song Searcher: The Times and Toils of Moyshe Beregovsky

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Man making matzohs for Passover in Mariendorf DP Camp in Berlin, Germany in 1946. #fromtheyivoarchives

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Boy with a large group of people, including soldiers, at a Channukah celebration in Vienna, Austria, 1946. #fromtheyivoarchives #chanukah #hanukkah #khanike

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New Year card featuring the Tree of Life, with each fruit representing a different virtue for the year to come (circa 1910). #fromtheyivoarchives #roshhashanah #jewishnewyear #new year #leshonetoyve #shanatova

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Harry Potter is coming to Yiddish!

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Wishing you a leshone toyve and a happy, healthy, sweet New Year! Photo: New Year's greeting, undated. Children in a hot air balloon inscribed with blessings for the New Year. YIVO Archives. #fromtheyivoarchives #roshhashanah jewishnewyear

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A seder in a Jewish kitchen in Luchon. France, 1941 #fromtheyivoarchives

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Join scholars, archivists, and curators to explore the rich world of Jewish children’s literature in pre-WWII Europe through the collections of YIVO and the Bodleian Library.

Jewish Children's Literature in Russian and Yiddish

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“[Yiddish] contains our heritage, our family, our bubbes and zaydes (grandmas and grandpas), our chicken soup and our kugel, our proverbs and our sayings. Yiddish is not only a language—it’s a culture and it’s a people.”

“A Language I Come Home To”: Yiddish in the Jewish Diaspora

When I asked my grandmother why she didn’t teach me Yiddish, she laughed.

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Explore Jewish attitudes towards death with Maya Balakirsky Katz to provide a lens for studying the construction of identity, selfhood, and collective memory across various periods of Jewish history.

From Ashes to Ashes: Death in the Jewish Imagination

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Marek Tuszewicki looks beyond superstition to unveil Ashkenazi Jewish folk medicine in historical, cultural, and social contexts.

Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe

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Children with the Maccabee revolving dreidel, a Hanukkah decoration, ca. 1960s #fromtheyivoarchives #chanukah #hanukkah #khanike #dreidel

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YIVO Opens an Office in London! "[YIVO] is the hidden gem of the Jewish world, the largest single resource of its kind – and it is about to open a London office." - Jenni Frazer, Jewish News

Hidden gem of Jewish world comes to London

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The Board of Directors and staff of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research express our deep sorrow at the passing of our dear colleague Chava Lapin z”l.

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Maya Balakirsky Katz explores Jewish attitudes towards death to provide a lens for studying the construction of identity, selfhood, and collective memory across various periods of Jewish history.

From Ashes to Ashes: Death in the Jewish Imagination

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Henry Sapoznik looks at the African American musicians who performed Yiddish and cantorial music in and for the Jewish community, in this talk featuring historic graphics, translations of period Yiddish newspapers, and a 1923 Yiddish and Hebrew recording of Thomas Jones LaRue.

The Lost World of African American Cantors 1915-1953

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“Young people — Jewish and non-Jewish — around the globe are discovering through the Yiddish language unknown ways of expressing their ambitions and interests and taking a stand against the brutality and cruelty that sought to annihilate it."

The pandemic and apps are fueling a surge of interest in Yiddish

More people are able to study the language through apps and online classes.

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YIVO's Eddy Portnoy delves into the a group of poets and scholars who risked their lives to save Jewish books and materials from YIVO’s collections from the Nazis and the Soviet Union.

A Brief History of the Paper Brigade

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Be a part of this year's summer program and discover Yiddish through language, history, and culture classes, a theater workshop, lectures by visiting scholars, a Yiddish song workshop, and more.

Deadline Extended to April 30

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YIVO is launching remote research sessions with a YIVO archivist starting April 8. Researchers will have the opportunity to go through YIVO Archives materials of their choosing with a YIVO archivist via Zoom.

Remote Research Sessions

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A gathering of women and children around Rosh Hashanah at the Lug River, for the observance of the tashlich ritual of symbolically casting their sins into the water. Uściług. #fromtheyivoarchives

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Chanukah celebration in a kindergarten in DP Camp Deggendorf, Germany, 1947. #fromtheyivoarchives #chanukah #hanukkah #khanike #dpcamp #displacedpersons

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Yiddish enthusiasts the world over, join the YIVO Yiddish club to celebrate mame-loshn. Our first session will feature writer Michael Wex for a discussion of Yiddish comedy and Purim.

Michael Wex & Yiddish Humor

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Boy with baked matzot in the Salzburg-Parsch DP Camp in Austria, 1947. #fromtheyivoarchives #displacedpersons #dpcamp #passover #pesach #peysekh #matza

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A Matzah baker loads dough into an oven. Lida, March 14, 1926. Photo by Alter Kacyzne. #fromtheyivoarchives

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Commemoration of the first anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at the Warshaver Synagogue, New York City, 1944. Photo by Larry Gordon. #fromtheyivoarchives #earsawghetto #warswaghettouprising

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If you missed our March 10 event, where researcher Chip Berlet and journalist Talia Lavin discussed how the far right’s internal dynamic and why it drives participants to violence, watch it online now.

Why the Far Right Kills | WATCH NOW

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YIVO recently received a collection of rare photographs taken by Jacob Rosofsky/Reshefsky, secretary of the (illegal) Bund in Moyzr, who was sentenced to exile in Archangel from 1903-1905.

Images of Exile: The Jacob Ross Papers

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A municipality in Ukraine pledged to return to Jewish ownership what’s left of a 17th-century synagogue that the Nazis partially destroyed and the Soviets turned into a sports school.

Rare 'fortress synagogue' to return to Jewish ownership in Lutsk, Ukraine - Jewish Telegraphic...

The 17th-century structure, which the Germans destroyed and the Soviets turned into a sports facility, last served as a Jewish house of worship in 1942.

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Men stand with open prayer books, performing Tashlekh (a ceremony in which Jews traditionally gathered at a body of water to symbolically cast away their sins from Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur). Siauliai, Lithuania, ca.1930's. #fromtheyivoarchives

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If you have been dreaming of a YIVO rolling tray, stash jar, or other items made for our recent exhibition, you can now order them online!

Shop our Am Yisrael High Exhibition Swag While Supplies Last!

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On the eve of Sukkot, Jewish boys on a cobblestone street, are carrying the etrog (citron) and lulav (closed palm frond) used in the holiday rituals. Warszawa, 1920s-1930s. #fromtheyivoarchives #holidaypostcard #sukkot #succos #sukkos #suke s #lulav #etrog

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Discover the now forgotten Black cantors–Mendele der Shvartser Khazn, Reb Dovid Kalistrita, Abraham Ben Benjamin Franklin, Thomas LaRue Jones, and Goldye di Shvartse Khaznte–who performed Yiddish and cantorial music in and for the Jewish community.

The Lost World of African American Cantors 1915-1953

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