This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Explore the historical connection between YIVO and the Oyneg Shabes Archive—the secret archive organized by Emanuel Ringelblum in the Warsaw Ghetto.

This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

Shane Baker explores the short stories of Yiddish writer Avrom Sutzkever, considering his prose from historical, cultural, and literary points of view.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is is appropriate for Yiddish students at the advanced level.

This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This twice-weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Read, listen to, and talk about short stories, essays, journalistic writing, folklore, and more from a literary and linguistic point of view with Vera Szabó.

Saulius Sužiedėlis discusses his new book, the first scholarly English-language study of Lithuania during World War II, which utilizes previously inaccessible archives and academic works, in a conversation led by Jonathan Brent.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Join us for a tribute to the artists who perished in the Holocaust, and whose music and poetry we keep alive today.

Steven J. Zipperstein, author of Philip Roth: Stung by Life, and Peter Cole, translator of Hayim Nahman Bialik’s On the Slaughter, explore their newly published books.

Join YIVO for a Yiddish evening celebrating our 100th anniversary, featuring David Fishman, Samuel Kassow, Cecile Kuznitz, Zalmen Mlotek, and David Roskies. This program will take place in Yiddish.

Stefanie Halpern, Eddy Portnoy, and Jonathan Brent discuss YIVO’s latest publication, a gorgeously illustrated coffee table book that highlights unique manuscripts, photographs, objects, and other ephemera from YIVO’s collections.

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

Enjoy a special concert recognizing Dave Tarras’ legacy and its impact on American klezmer music, featuring three of the contemporary Yiddish music scene’s leading performers, Andy Statman, Dan Blacksberg, and Pete Rushefsky.

Shaul Stampfer, Lara Lempertienė, Tzipora Weinberg, and Daniel Reiser, in a discussion led by Andrew Silow-Carroll, reflect on their new volume, which addresses the religious life of the Lithuanian Jewish community over time.

In a conversation led by Samuel Kassow, Steven D. Meed discusses his new translation of Vladka Meed’s memoir, which details how she served in the Warsaw ghetto’s Jewish underground by passing as a Christian outside its walls.

Elissa Bemporad, Mikhl Yashinsky, and Glenn Dynner explore two new translations from YIVO’s Yiddish Voices series, The Destruction of Dubova by Rokhl Faygenberg and The Mother of Yiddish Theater by Ester-Rokhl Kaminska.

Zofia Hartman, in conversation with Agnieszka Legutko, discusses how consul of the Empire of Japan in Kaunas, Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara, saved several thousand Jews during the Holocaust by issuing transit visas.

Ryan MacEvoy McCullough performs Juliusz Wolfsohn’s Paraphrasen, a collection of 12 virtuosic piano fantasies based on Yiddish folksongs.

For YIVO’s annual December Dilemma-themed event, Neta Stahl will discuss how Jewish writers portrayed Jesus during periods of significant transformations in Jewish life. A kosher Chinese food dinner will follow the presentation.

The annual Hanukkah concert celebrates this joyous holiday with songs and stories that charm and delight audiences.

Follow Esther-Rokhl Kaminska from her native shtetl, to the barns in which her wandering troupe first performs, and eventually to the brightly lit stages of Warsaw in this class taught by Mikhl Yashinsky.

Josh Price prepares students to start learning Yiddish with an introduction to the Yiddish alphabet, basic reading, writing, and pronunciation.

Josh Price examines the life and work of Chaim Grade, one of the most profound voices in modern Yiddish literature.

Eugene Orenstein analyzes selected texts from Soviet Yiddish poet Dovid Hofshteyn in order to appreciate the genius of his poetics and the synthesis of his Jewishness and universalism.

Elżbieta Janicka explores how Kosów Lacki’s physical and symbolic landscapes reveal the complex realities of Jewish life, survival, and persecution during the Holocaust.

Through literary texts, Anita Norich explores how Yiddish writers have imagined where they and the Jewish people belong.

Ilan Stavans uncovers the intertwined stories of Sephardim, Ottomans, Ashkenazim, Communists, Shoah survivors, Hasidim, and Israelis whose experiences have defined Jewish identity in Mexico.

From the Rosenberg trial to McCarthyism, Harvey Klehr reveals how fear, politics, and Jewish identity intertwined in the drama of Cold War America.

Through the words of Yiddish writers and firsthand memoirs, this course with Samuel Kassow reveals the “real” shtetl, a complex community that had an enormous impact on Jewish life over the centuries.

Tony Michels explores the ways in which Jews in different countries, but especially the United States, responded to the Russian Revolution.

Maya Benton explores the unique contributions of Jews to shaping the history and medium of photography.

Jonathan Brent explores the lives and memoirs of revolutionaries Victor Serge and Isaac Nachman Steinberg.

J. Hoberman traces how German and Austrian Jewish directors redefined American cinema in the 1940s.

Bring your Yiddish to life through storytelling, style, and imagination in a creative writing course led by Boris Sandler.

Adi Mahalel explores classic Yiddish writer I. L. Peretz’s engagement with early Jewish socialist circles during the 1890s.

Join Dovid Braun for an immersive journey into the voices of YIVO’s founding scholars and discover how their words still shape Yiddish thought today.

Shane Baker explores the nature of the monologue in Yiddish literature and performance and delves into the history of the monologue and of the solo performer in Yiddish theater.

Conducted in English, Perl Teitelbaum teaches Yiddish songs and chants to adults. Parents, grandparents, relatives, friends, and educators who want to bring Yiddish into the world of young children (or to enrich their own inner child!) are encouraged to register.

In this lecture, scholar and performer Walter Zev Feldman explores the vibrant, yet largely concealed, musical culture of the klezmer revitalization in New York, Philadelphia and other American cities in the 1960s.

In this lecture demonstration, scholar-musician Jeremiah Lockwood discusses some of the major stars of the cantorial “golden age” and explores the emergence of khazones (cantorial music).

This lecture by scholar Ronald Robboy will explore the idea that George Gershwin’s internalization of Black Americans’ music was influenced by his early immersion in Yiddish theater.

Join YIVO for a performance of the music of Khantshe in Amerike, a 1912 operetta that touches on serious topics including love, gender, women's suffrage and the changing social status of women in turn-of-the-century America and was noted for having put “American rhythm” on the Yiddish stage for the first time.