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YIVO digitizes writer Chaim Grade’s archive, a Yiddish treasure with a soap opera backstory

Manuscripts, letters, photos and speeches from a giant of Yiddish literature, long kept out of view by his late widow, are now online.

By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 5, 2023 7:00 am

UN exhibit remembers when the world turned its back on stateless Jewish refugees

“After the End of the World” features artifacts from and about displaced persons camps, where survivors were stuck in limbo in the wake of the Holocaust.

January 10, 2023 8:21 am

Yiddish institute YIVO, facing budget shortfall, lays off its library staff

The archival staff will assist with the library, which contains 400,000 books, newspapers and other publications.

January 21, 2020 2:37 pm

A YIVO conference finds a new audience for Yiddish anarchism

By Andrew Silow-Carroll January 22, 2019 2:25 pm

A classic Yiddish operetta, revived for a new generation

By Curt Schleier December 8, 2015 4:18 pm

Polish scholar Barbara Engelking receives Karski award

September 12, 2013 7:29 am

Ugly dumpling: Yiddish institute says winning bee word is ‘kneydl’

June 2, 2013 3:50 pm

Yiddish stars hold gala to remember Adrienne Cooper

By Ruth Ellen Gruber December 23, 2012 11:59 am

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