Nathaniel Deutsch will discuss The Digital Minhag Project, an interactive website built around a Yiddish-English version of Sh. An-ski's ethnographic questionnaire, that seeks to crowd-source contemporary Jewish customs, beginning with those still practiced by Hasidic communities.

In this presentation, Michael Rom will explore the participation of Brazilian Jews in political movements throughout the Cold War.

On this guided tour with Yiddish literature and dance scholar Dr. Sonia Gollance, we will visit some key New York dance sites in the footsteps of Yiddish writers and journalists.

Join YIVO for a tour of its new YLMC, a publicly accessible space for visitors to come and explore Jewish history and the YIVO Collections.

Join YIVO for a tour of its new YLMC, a publicly accessible space for visitors to come and explore Jewish history and the YIVO Collections.

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.

Sarah Ellen Zarrow, in conversation with Jeffrey Shandler, places Jewish ethnographic practice and art collection within a Polish context, and sheds light on ways in which ideas about belonging and national identity were negotiated in museums.

Join YIVO for the world premiere production of The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language, a new chamber opera with music by Pulitzer Prize finalist Alex Weiser and libretto by Ben Kaplan, which tells the remarkable true story of Yiddish linguist Yudel Mark’s unfinished effort to create a comprehensive Yiddish dictionary. 

In this talk, Sandra Fox will discuss how the founders and leaders of Camp Hemshekh embraced the sleepaway camp as a potential cure for Yiddish cultural and linguistic decline, and how they created a new purpose for and style of Yiddishism for the postwar moment.

Henry H. Sapoznik offers a vivid and entertaining look at New York’s lush Ashkenazic past and present that showcases the culture’s persistent resiliency, in a conversation led by Eddy Portnoy.

Miriam Udel, in conversation with Marjorie Ingall, shows how Yiddish authors confronted practical limits on their ability to forge a fully realized nation of their own and focused instead on making a symbolic and conceptual world for Jewish children to inhabit with dignity, justice, and joy.

Halina Goldberg, Glenn Dynner, Beth Holmgren, and Eliza Rose highlight a newly published volume about the Jewish inn, a central pillar of economic and social life in Polish lands before World War II.

Please join us for an evening celebrating a century of preserving and perpetuating Eastern European Jewish language, history, and culture.