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Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built
Registration is required. How did Jews revolutionize the twentieth-century publishing business and connect books to Broadway, Hollywood, and TV, and how did…
Modern Jewish Identity in the Age of Empire
Registration is required. Join YIVO for a conversation with Ofer Dynes and Svetlana Natkovich exploring two new books that examine the emergence of modern…
Reclaiming More Music of Polish Composers: Refugees from World War II
Presented by the American Society for Jewish Music; co-sponsored by YIVO, Holocaust Music Lost & Found, the Polish Chamber Musician’s Association, and Polish…
Yiddish Poetry and Jewish Identity in 1930s America
Registration is required. Introspectivism: Yiddish Poetry and Jewish Identity in 1930s America studies the poetry written in New York by the In Zikh, also…
The Origins, Flowering, and Documentary Afterlife of Yiddish Cinema
Yiddish Civilization 101 Series In celebration of YIVO's 101st year, join us for our Yiddish Civilization 101 series. Each program will highlight key topics in…
An Evening with Alex Weiser and Andrzej Ciepliński: A Celebration of "Tfiles" and its Carnegie Hall Premiere
Presented by American Composers Orchestra, American Friends of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Association of the Jewish Historical Institute, Adam…
Defining "The Jew" in the Age of Eugenics: American Jewish Physicians and Biological Jewishness in the Early 20th Century
The Rose and Isidore Drench Memorial Fellowship and the Dora and Mayer Tendler Endowed Fellowship in Jewish Studies The arrival of millions of new Jewish…
Yiddish Theater Walking Tour
Join YIVO Learning and Media Center Educator Susannah Trubman on a two-hour walking tour exploring the heart of what was once a major hub for the sensational,…
The YIVO Origins of the Oyneg Shabes Archive: Understanding the Documents of the Hersh Wasser Collection
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Historical Institute, the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, and Polish Cultural Institute New York…
My Name is Stramer
Co-sponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute New York; additional support provided by the Ministry of Polish Culture and Adam Mickiewicz Institute Though he…
More than a Symbol: The Jewish Labor Bund in History
More so than any other party on the Jewish left, the Jewish Labor Bund holds a particular mystique in the imagination of Jewish leftists, even decades after…
A Staged Reading of 'The Dybbuk'
Co-sponsored by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene Join YIVO and the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene for a staged reading of Sh. An-ski’s legendary…
Diamonds of the Night
Co-sponsored by the Arnošt Lustig Foundation In winning the Grand Prix at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (IFFMH) in 1964, Jan Němec’s…
World of Our Fathers at 50
Co-sponsored by the Tenement Museum World of Our Fathers by Irving Howe, originally published in 1976, traces the journeys of Eastern Europe’s Jews to America…
Modern Yiddish Literature
Yiddish Civilization 101 Series In celebration of YIVO's 101st year, join us for our Yiddish Civilization 101 series. Each program will highlight key topics in…
Music in Our Time 2026 - Fleeing for Survival
Presented by the American Society for Jewish Music, The Mannes Sounds Festival, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and the Leo Baeck Institute Leaving…
Fania's World of Flavors, Smells, and Colors
Co-sponsored by American Friends of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and Polish Cultural Institute New York The documentary Fania’s World of Flavors,…
New from Yiddish Voices: Mississippi and Hasidic Warsaw
Join us for the launch of the latest two translations in the Yiddish Voices series, a partnership between YIVO and Bloomsbury. The first, Mississippi: A…
History of Yiddish
Yiddish Civilization 101 Series In celebration of YIVO's 101st year, join us for our Yiddish Civilization 101 series. Each program will highlight key topics in…
Hanukkah Concert 2026
Produced by the American Society for Jewish Music; co-sponsored by YIVO, the Leo Baeck Institute, and the Center for Jewish History Celebrating the joys of the…
Through the Eyes of Jewish Child Survivors from Poland
Registration is required. Through the Eyes of Jewish Child Survivors from Poland offers an intimate social history of Jewish childhood during and after the…
Immigrant Songs: Yiddish Theater and the American Jewish Experience
Co-sponsored by the Milken Archive of Jewish Music and the American Jewish Historical Society Join us for the New York premiere of Immigrant Songs: Yiddish…