News & Features

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will present the New York premiere of Fania’s World of Flavors, Smells, and Colors, a documentary exploring the life and culinary legacy of vegetarian chef and cookbook author Fania Lewando.

Drawing on the Jewish Labor and Political Archives (JLPA), currently being preserved and digitized at YIVO, Joshua Meyers will examine the history of the Jewish Labor Bund and the lived reality behind its enduring legacy as a symbol of Diaspora Socialism, anti-Zionism, and Yiddish cultural activism.

Invaluable cultural treasures are now at extreme risk in the wartime conditions of Ukraine. Your support of YIVO is essential to our effort to preserve and safeguard these precious materials.

Micah talks about his experience in the Summer Program and how it expanded his Yiddish world.

Vera talks about her experience in the Summer Program and expanding her sense of what she might be able to do with the language.

Ola talks about her experience in the Summer Program and the start of her Yiddish journey.

The “School and Pioneer Library” was a Yiddish-language series of literature published by the Kultur-lige Press in Kyiv in the mid-1920s.

An amateur film reel in YIVO’s collection has recently been digitized and made available for viewing for the first time in over 85 years.

This July, travelers joined YIVO’s study tour of the Balkans, visiting Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina over 13 days.

Terri Moss shares her experience on the YIVO Study Tour of Lithuania & Poland.