For YIVO’s annual December Dilemma-themed event, Neta Stahl will discuss how Jewish writers portrayed Jesus during periods of significant transformations in Jewish life. A kosher Chinese food dinner will follow the presentation.

Join YIVO for the New York City premiere of Swedishkayt: YidLife Crisis in Stockholm, followed by a Q&A with YIVO Senior Academic Advisor & Director of Exhibitions, Eddy Portnoy.

The annual Hanukkah concert celebrates this joyous holiday with songs and stories that charm and delight audiences.

In this lecture, Sir Richard J. Evans argues that while many factors contributed to the fall of the Weimar Republic, its collapse ultimately stemmed from Germany’s weak democratic culture, which left it unable to withstand the economic challenge of the Depression and the political onslaught of Hitler and the Nazis.

Have you always wanted to study Yiddish at the YIVO-Bard Summer Program? Are you wondering what it would be like to spend six weeks studying at YIVO in New York City? Join faculty and staff of the Summer Program for a brief information session.

Join us for a discussion about Yiddish: A Global Culture with curator David Mazower, led by YIVO Senior Academic Advisor & Director of Exhibitions Eddy Portnoy.

This presentation by Tomasz M. Jankowski invites you to explore the shared Jewish, Polish, and Lithuanian musical heritage and to listen to original recordings from the 1930s.

Have you always wanted to study Yiddish at the YIVO-Bard Summer Program? Are you wondering what it would be like to spend six weeks studying at YIVO in New York City? Join faculty and staff of the Summer Program for a brief information session.

Moderated by Jayashri Wyatt, a panel comprising Elżbieta Ficowska, Mordecai Paldiel, Jay Winter, and Daniel Blatman will discuss how remembrance has evolved over the decades, how stories of rescuers and survivors can be communicated to younger generations, and how to respond to new challenges in Holocaust remembrance.

Have you always wanted to study Yiddish at the YIVO-Bard Summer Program? Are you wondering what it would be like to spend six weeks studying at YIVO in New York City? Join faculty and staff of the Summer Program for a brief information session.

Are you thinking of returning to the Summer Program to continue your advanced studies? Join Summer Program faculty and staff for a brief information session about YIVO’s advanced levels.

Join YIVO for this concert featuring a variety of chamber and vocal music by Leo Zeitlin, best know for his Eli Zion for cello and orchestra, alongside works by composers with whom he was in dialogue.

In this lecture, Elena Hoffenberg draws upon materials held by YIVO to explore how projections about the future in terms of work, culture, and politics guided parents, educational activists, and young people themselves.

In this lecture, scholar and performer Walter Zev Feldman explores the vibrant, yet largely concealed, musical culture of the klezmer revitalization in New York, Philadelphia and other American cities in the 1960s.

In this lecture demonstration, scholar-musician Jeremiah Lockwood discusses some of the major stars of the cantorial “golden age” and explores the emergence of khazones (cantorial music).

Join us for a special concert of Coney Island Days (2022) by Alex Weiser and the New York premiere of Muriel’s Songs (2023) by Eric Chasalow, two song cycles that commemorate the composers’ grandmothers and detail how they navigated 20th century American Jewish life in New York City. 

This lecture by scholar Ronald Robboy will explore the idea that George Gershwin’s internalization of Black Americans’ music was influenced by his early immersion in Yiddish theater.

Join YIVO for a performance of the music of Khantshe in Amerike, a 1912 operetta that touches on serious topics including love, gender, women's suffrage and the changing social status of women in turn-of-the-century America and was noted for having put “American rhythm” on the Yiddish stage for the first time.

Join YIVO for an enlightening journey to Lithuania and Poland. Reclaim your heritage as you examine the life that was lived in these lands. View the remarkable history of old Warsaw, Kraków, Vilnius, and Białowieża.

From the renowned Sarajevo Haggadah to the old Jewish synagogues of the Adriatic coast, from the charming lanes of Osijek to the legendary Old Town of Mostar, this trip will offer a revealing look at the little-known but fascinating history of Jews in the Balkans and their resilience in the face of centuries of conflict and upheaval.

Join YIVO on a journey of discovery across northern Italy, exploring the fascinating, troubled, and glorious history of Italian Jews in the northern tier, unfamiliar to most of us.