News & Features

YIVO is delighted to conjure up excitement with a new on-site exhibition, Jews Are Magic: Occult Practices from Palmistry to Professional Psychics, opening to the public on Tuesday, May 26, 2026.

List of recipients of YIVO’s 2026-2027 faculty and graduate student fellowships.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce its participation in Carnegie Hall’s Nuestros sonidos (Our Sounds) festival.

Neil W. Levin continues his exploration of Yiddish opera under the auspices of his position as Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music.

Browse YIVO’s Centennial highlights from 2025.

For several weeks, the Library has been reorganizing the Strashun Rabbinic collection.

B. Cassel's grandon, Andrew W. Cassel, donated 19 pages, in Yiddish and in Russian, of letters from Sholem Aleichem, as well as from the latter’s son-in- law, Yiddish and Hebrew writer Y. D. Berkowitz, and from Olga Rabinowitz, Sholem Aleichem’s wife.

YIVO received the collection of artist, filmmaker, and daughter of Vilna, Mira Jedwabnik Van Doren.

Israel Zajd’s collection of materials documenting the history and activities of Morgnshtern during the 1920s and 1930s: leadership and conference proceedings; competitions and meets; sports clubs; and participation in the Workers’ Olympiads.

Since the YIVO Learning and Media Center’s (YLMC) June opening, we have had a whirlwind of visits from high schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions.