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 IV 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.

Aleksandra Jakubczak explores the phenomenon of Eastern European Jewish migration, which profoundly affected both the Jews who went abroad and those who stayed behind.

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

Sharon Bar-Kochva considers the felyeton (feuilleton) as a distinctively vibrant expression of Yiddish literary and journalistic creativity.

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

Samuel Glauber offers an introduction to Hillel Zeitlin (1871–1942), a prolific yet often underappreciated Warsaw intellectual whose works span the worlds of religious tradition and secular Jewish modernity.

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 III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

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

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 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.

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

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

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate I 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 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.

Following Uriel Weinreich’s classic textbook College Yiddish, Dovid Braun offers a robust overview of the building blocks of Yiddish words and sentences.

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 performance celebrates YIVO’s 100th anniversary by reimagining the concert experience through a cross-disciplinary collaboration between Ensemble Connect and clarinetist David Krakauer, whose genre-blending artistry spans jazz, klezmer, and classical music.

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 enhances 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 Advanced I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska examines Lublin’s central role in Yankev Glatshteyn’s literary universe and draws on new archival discoveries to explore his postwar connections with Yiddish writers and activists in Poland, as well as his unrealized plan to return to his birthplace in August 1964, thirty years after his first journey.

This mini-course from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews examines how Jewish communities in Eastern Europe used education to imagine radically different futures.

Join YIVO for a performance of the music of Khantshe in Amerike, a 1912 operetta that touches on topics including love, gender, women's suffrage, and the changing social status of women in turn-of-the-century America. 

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

The opening of YIVO’s latest exhibit, Jews Are Magic: Occult Practices from Palmistry to Professional Psychics, will include a panel discussion featuring specialists on the Jewish occult, Samuel Glauber and Rokhl Kafrissen, moderated by YIVO Senior Academic Advisor & Director of Exhibitions, Eddy Portnoy.

Sandra Chiritescu and Malena Chinski, in a talk led by Rachelle Grossman, discusses the newly published translation of Mark Turkow’s Malka Owsiany Recounts, a testimony of not only the horrors of the Holocaust, but also the richness of Polish Jewish life.

Join YIVO for this concert featuring a variety of chamber and vocal music by Leo Zeitlin, best known for his Eli Zion for cello and orchestra, performed alongside works by composers with whom he was in dialogue. 

Mikhl Yashinsky leads a community read, featuring selections from the original Yiddish stories of his new translation, Adventures of Max Spitzkopf: The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes.

Elad Schlesinger explores how rabbinic journals served as a stage for intense halakhic and ideological debate while also fostering global connectivity and a sense of scholarly universality.

Elissa Sampson, Jennifer Young, and Felicia Bevel, in a conversation led by Kate Rosenblatt, tell the story of the International Workers Order (IWO), an organization founded in 1930 to provide life, burial, and health insurance to its members.

Rebecca Kobrin chronicles how Jewish immigrants established innovative banking networks that not only financed their own communities’ migration and economic advancement, but also transformed broader American commercial banking practices, in a discussion led by Annie Polland.

Mariusz Kalczewiak, in a talk led by Miriam Mora, explores how religion, class divisions, antisemitism, new domesticity, and militarization changed masculine ideas and practices in Eastern Europe between the 1890s and 1930s.

Join YIVO for an enlightening journey to Lithuania and Poland. Reclaim your heritage as you examine the life that was lived in these lands. View the remarkable history of old Warsaw, Kraków, Vilnius, and Białowieża.

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

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

Michael Wex offers an accessible introduction to the Yiddish language, focusing on its historical evolution and its distinctly Jewish character.

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

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

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

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

Intended for Yiddish students at the upper intermediate level and above, this course will consider the post-Holocaust Yiddish writings of Chava Rosenfarb and Zvi Eisenman.

Eliezer Niborski teaches the skills necessary to decipher handwritten Yiddish documents from diverse times and places.

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

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

From the renowned Sarajevo Haggadah to the old Jewish synagogues of the Adriatic coast, from the charming lanes of Osijek to the legendary Old Town of Mostar, this trip will offer a revealing look at the little-known but fascinating history of Jews in the Balkans and their resilience in the face of centuries of conflict and upheaval.

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

Sonia Dratwa-Pinkusowitz guides students through I.L. Peretz’s classic Yiddish stories about family life.

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

Samuel Glauber explores how Yiddish-speaking Jews have engaged with occult beliefs and practices, including séances, divination, and the investigation of hidden realities.

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