YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews.

Four Questions Ideas

A NYC conference celebrates the cultural creativity of formerly Orthodox Jews

YIVO hosts a two-day symposium on Jews who went “off the derech,” or religious path.

Beloved Borscht Belt entertainer Morris Katz remembered in new NYC exhibit

“The Instant Art of Morris Katz,” the artist’s first-ever solo gallery show, opens at the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research on May 16.

Ideas

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

New York

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

United States

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

Culture

A YIVO conference finds a new audience for Yiddish anarchism

Culture

A classic Yiddish operetta, revived for a new generation

Global

Polish scholar Barbara Engelking receives Karski award

United States

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

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