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The first session of this year’s summer program theater class workshop met in an especially theatrical setting – the loft of New York’s acclaimed Circus Amok. Led by theater workshop instructors Jenny Romaine and Shane Baker, and special guest Itzik Gottesman, the students listened to ghost stories and “roasted marshmallows.”

YIVO presents a special evening celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program and honoring Chava Lapin.

This spring, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will host its third annual Children’s Day, a day of activity and cultural immersion for children of all ages.

We want your talent in Yiddish! Join our celebrated hosts, entertainers Shane Baker and Miryem-Khaye Seigel, and special guests for a fun, intimate night of Yiddish performance.

by TOVA MESSER This year's Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture was kicked off on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 by a retro-chic evening of drinks, refreshments and entertainment celebrating avant-garde Yiddish-Russian culture. A lively cocktail hour in the Great Hall was followed by performances by Artists in ResidenceShane ...

Join puppeteer extraordinaire Jenny Romaine, MC and actor Shane Baker, and a team of Sukkes musicians for a participatory theater exploration of the permeable borders between the living and dead, followed by an open mic in our pop-up sukke.

Join us for a Purim-themed Children’s festival! Activities will take place from 11:00am until 1:00pm throughout the Center for Jewish History.

Kids, parents, and grandparents will experience the delightful diversity of Jewish culture from countries around the world in this Purim-themed March Mash-Up of family fun.

Almost precisely 100 years ago, the company that would form the basis for the future Moscow Yiddish Art Theater performed the only play ever written by Shloyme Mikhoels, its star actor, future director, and head of the wartime Jewish Antifascist Committee. Now, for the first time in a hundred years, Mikhoels’ play will be performed in a dramatic reading.

The Congress for Jewish Culture, the Jewish Labor Committee, the Workmen’s Circle and YIVO join together to commemorate and remember the bravery of the Partisans of the Warsaw Ghetto. This event takes place in Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Plaza in Riverside Park, NYC.