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YIVO Executive Director & CEO Jonathan Brent visited Vilnius, Lithuania in May 2022 to participate in two important events: the opening of the 5th World Litvak Congress, and the opening of the Lithuanian Art Centre TARTLE’s latest exhibit.

On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 1:00pm (ET), the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents Are We in the Midst of a Yiddish Renaissance? Join YIVO on Zoom for a conversation about the Yiddish world today.

On Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 1:00pm (ET), the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is thrilled to announce the opening of its first on-site exhibition since COVID to take place on Thursday, May 5, Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis.

List of recipients of YIVO’s 2022-2023 faculty and graduate student fellowships.

This May, YIVO is hosting Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today, the largest music festival of its kind featuring four concerts which cross stylistic boundaries between classical and folk music.

A zisn un a koshern peysekh! Wishing you good health and a sweet Pesach! Enjoy these Passover songs from the YIVO Archives.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) and Stockton University are pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition, After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps, on view from March 21 to April 28, 2022.

Read a comic by Lithuanian Judaica researcher and cartoonist Miglė Anušauskaitė about her work on the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project.

Alex Weiser discusses the oral tradition of Jewish songs in the Yiddish language, a musical genre well-represented in YIVO’s archival and library holdings.