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- Image Before My Eyes: A History of Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust
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- Dec. 2-4, 2006 - 'Sigmund Freud - His Jewish World' Conference
- Nov. 29, 2006 - 'S.Y. Abramovitsh Between Yiddish and Hebrew' Lecture by Prof. Dan Miron
- Sept. 14, 2006 - Inaugural Sidney Krum Concert: 'Jewish Cabaret in Exile - Songs of Modernity'
- April- May, 2005: 'YIVO @ 80' Events Series
- December 1, 2005 - Lecture: 'Jews, Genes and Intelligence'
- Exhibitions, Concerts & Other Special Events
- November 6, 2005 - Conference: 'Jews and Medicine'
- 'Give Me Your Children': Voices from the Lodz Ghetto
- 'Spinoza in the Yiddish Mind'
- AVROM SUTZKEVER (1913-2010):
A MEMORIAL EXHIBIT - Bigger than Life: The Boundless Genius of Yiddish Theater
- From Dream to Reality
Zionism and the Birth of Israel - I Am My Brother’s Keeper: The Rothschilds and Their Commitment to Jewish Causes
- Max Weinreich (1894-1969): Yiddish Linguist, Literary Scholar, and Public Intellectual
- One Foot in America: The Jewish Emigrants of the Red Star Line and Eugeen Van Mieghem
- Other Zions: From Freeland to Yiddishland
- Oyf di Khurves / On the Ruins: A Chaim Grade Memorial Exhibit
- Shades of Red: Yiddish Left-Wing Press in America
- Special Exhibition on Otto Frank File
Feb. 14 - May 1, 2007 - Stars, Strikes, and the Yiddish Stage: The Story of the Hebrew Actors’ Union, 1899–2005
- The Family Singer
- The Jews of Tsarist Russia
- The Otto Frank File from the YIVO Archives
- Yiddish Schools in Poland: Creating the Culture, Awakening the Spirit
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Max Weinreich Center Programs 2007
- 'Dervayterte shtifbrider - Yiddish Modernism and the Zionist State'
Lecture - Feb. 12, 2007 - Recent Lectures
- Yiddish Language Seminars
May 24, 2006 - Lecture: 'The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity'
Oct. 24, 2006 - 'Jews and Money' Lecture
Oct. 29, 2006 - 'Baruch Spinoza symposium'
- Arthur Hertzberg : The Legacy of a Public Intellectual
- Dzigan
- Jews & Basketball31 January 2008
- Old Demon New Debate
- Rabbis & Rebbes - Artists & Intellectuals
- Self-Conceptions
Women, Creativity and Jewish Identity
8 Mar 2006 - The Rise and Fall of the Yiddish Empire
- Writing as Roots
- YIVO Encyclopedia : A First Look
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- (Re-)Locating Jewishness in Fin-de-siècle Riga: Cultural maps, local politics, and the question of language
- 2007 Grammy Award Winner
The Klezmatics : Up Close - Di royte yidlekh: From Heroic Muscle Jews to Little Redheads
- Annual Nusakh Vilne Yizker & Memorial Lecture
- Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland
- Chagall: His Art, His Theater, His Fictional Worlds
- Churchill and Zionism :
Not By Sufferance But By Right - Comics and the Jewish American Dream
- Connecting Geography:
Yiddish Song in New York - Educating Moyshe or Corrupting Him?
Polemics around the Novel Sanin in the American Yiddish Press ca.1908 - Elephants on the Night of Metula
- Emancipation and Its Discontents:
Jewish Women in Interwar Poland - Everything is God: A Jewish Spiritual Woodstock
- Fall 2009 Program Summary
- Feminist Discourse in Women's Yiddish Press
- From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz and the New York Intellectuals
- ISRAEL at 60
Can It Remain Both Jewish and Democratic ? - ISRAEL at 60
Jewish Sovereignty : Its Promise and Its Reverberations - Jewish Representations of Violence in the First World War
- Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt with Nazis
- KlezKamp RoadShow
- Lessons and Legacies in Holocaust Survivor Families: Innovations in the Investigation of Intergenerational Responses
- Live from YIVO : The Andy Statman Trio
- Loud Fast Jews
- Madoff: A Jewish Reckoning
- Mapping Transnational Jewish Philanthropy, 1880-1990
- Max Weinreich Center
Lectures and Seminars - Max Weinreich Center Lectures
- Milstein Conference on New York and the American Jewish Experience
- Mordkhe Schaechter Commemoration
- Motl Zelmanowicz, A Bundist Comments on History as It Was Being Made
- Nusakh Vilne Yizker and Memorial Lecture
- One Foot in America: The Jewish Emigrants of the Red Star Line and Eugeen Van Mieghem
- One Hundred Years Since Czernowitz
- Picturing the Shoah
- Pioneering Studies of Jewish Physicians
- Podbrudzer Annual Memorial Lecture
- Poland and the Jews
Before and After the Holocaust - POSTPONED Establishing Beys Ya’akov: Legitimizing Girls Religious Education
- POSTPONED Remembering (in) the Mother Tongue: The Role of Yiddish in Israeli Autobiographical Expressions
- Shtetl on the High Seas: The Steamship Companies and Jewish Emigration from Eastern Europe
- The Birth of Israel : The Truman Factor
- The Failed Rehabilitation of Shomer the Novelist
- The Future of Jewish Heritage in Europe :
Case Study Slovakia - The Helena Mayer Story
- The Holocaust in the German Occupied Soviet Territories :
The Neglected Massacres - The Hungarian Jewish Remnant, 1945-48
- The Imaginary Influence of Sefer Megaleh Temirin
- The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy -
A Critical Response - The Legacy of Lev Aronson: A Memorial Concert
- The Sidney Krum Annual Concert
- The Yiddish Press in Israel : A Minority Press in Its Own Nation State (1948-2008)
- Uncommon Voices, Everyday Lives: Jewish Experiences in Salonika through the YIVO Archives
- Unzere Kinder / Our Children
- Who Will Write Our History?
- Yiddish Folksongs from the Ruth Rubin Archive
- ¿Did Herzl Really Say That?
- Fun mayn royzeles tog bukh:
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern's Committed Love Poems - A Lesser Evil: Jewish-Lithuanian Political Cooperation at the Beginning of the 20th Century
- Avrom Sutzkever Memorial
- Chaim Grade Memorial on the 100th Anniversary of his Birth
- Coming to America?
Max Weinreich and the Making of YIVO in New York, 1939-1941 - Conference on the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Simon Dubnow
- Czernowitz in Jewish Memory
- Empire of Charity:
American Jews and the Rebuilding of Polish Lithuania, 1919-1939 - Establishing Beys Ya’akov:
Legitimizing Girls' Religious Education - Fall 2010 Program Summary
- Going Home: The Return of Nathan Becker and
16 mm Postcards: Home Movies of American Jewish Visitors to 1930s Poland - Jewish Tavernkeepers and Liquor Traders in the 19th Century Kingdom of Poland
- Judaism: A Way of Being
- Lenin’s Jewish Question
- Marginal and Marginalized:
Tales of the Destitute, Orphaned, and Disabled in Jewish Eastern Europe - Masha Benya Memorial
- Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World
- Nusakh Vilne
- Passionate Pioneers:
The Story of Yiddish Secular Education in North America, 1910-1960 - Protocols of Justice:
Inside the Rabbinical Court of Metz, France (1771-1789) - Remembering (in) the Mother Tongue:
The Role of Yiddish in Israeli Autobiographical Expressions - Revisting the American Soviet Jewry Movement
- Schaechter Memorial Lecture
- Seeking Shulamis:
The Life and Times of Avrom Goldfaden's Most Celebrated Operetta - Shloyme Mikhoels Memorial on the 120th Anniversary of his Birth
- Slovak Jewish Heritage Talk
- Spring 2010 Program Summary
- Summer 2010 Program Summary
- The Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series at YIVO
- The Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series at YIVO
Fall Concert - The Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series at YIVO
Spring Concert - This Theatre is a Battlefield:
How Antifascist & Zionist Performance Forged a New Jewish-American Identity, 1933-1948 - Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in the Aftermath of the Schwarzbard Trial
- “Ethnic Cleansing” and Genocide in Subcarpathian Rus’
- 25th Anniversary Program: The Partisans of Vilna
- Haynt–The Jewish Voice at Your Home
- Rechnitz: Austria’s Dirty Little Secret
A Rare Conversation with Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek - The Rise of David Levinsky: Realism, Sex, and Capital
- A “Russian Zion,” or a Jewish Nightmare?: Jewish Life in Tsarist Kiev
- American Jews and Soviet Espionage
- An Evening with Philip Roth
- Before the Upheaval: Jewish Daily Life in 19th Century Poland Reflected in the Guttmacher 'Kvitlekh'
- Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
- Creating Yiddishist Youth: Modern Secular Yiddish Education and the Turn to Youth in Interwar Vilna
- Ethnography of a Vanishing Courtyard: Moshe Kulbak's Zelmenyaner
- Fall 2011 Program Summary
- From Holocaust to Life–Music by David Botwinik
- Hy Wolfe: An Evening of Songs and Stories
- Images of a Lost World: Pictures & Stories of Balkan Sephardic Life
- In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia
- Jewish Deportees: Displaced Persons in the Soviet Union during World War II
- Joseph Roth's Job
- Max Weinreich and America
- New Yiddish Film
- Nusakh Vilne
- Other Zions: From Freeland to Yiddishland
- Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish
- Shush! Growing Up Jewish Under Stalin
- Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series
- Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series
- SOLD OUT: A Celebration of Yiddish Literature in Honor of Boris Sandler
- Solemn Remembrance for the Murdered Soviet Yiddish Writers
- Spring 2011 Program Summary
- Summer 2011 Program Summary
- Survival in the Shtetl: Reflections of Polish Jewish Economic Life in the Guttmacher Kvitlekh
- The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession: Realeconomik
- The Inaugural Naomi Prawer Kadar Lecture
On the Road, Back in the Old Country
Memories and Maps of a Yiddish Dialectologist - The Jewish Policy of Russian Military and Civilian Authorities and the Crisis in the Russian Empire, 1914-1917
- The Knights of History: Polish Jewish Historians in the Second Polish Republic
- The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
- The Mystery of the Golem
- The Vilna Ghetto Experience
- Two Cities under Siege: The Jews of Vilna and Warsaw during World War I
- Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky
- Wilhelm Brasse's Photographs from Auschwitz–Testimony and Photography in Irek Dobrowolski's Portrait Photographer
- Yiddish Culture in Montreal: Yesterday and Today
- Yiddish Dialects on Wings of Song: Re'ut Ben-Ze’ev
- “Integrale Yidishkeyt”: Modern Yiddish Culture’s Turn Inward in Response to the Holocaust
- “Polacks” or “Litvaks” –Are There Any Differences Between the “Polish” and “Lithuanian” Jews in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
- “The Merchant of Venice” in Yiddish
- The Dybbuk
- A City Within a City
- An Evening with Romanian Jewish Author Norman Manea
- Annals of Communism: Soviet Archives from Secrecy to Openness?
- Anti-Jewish Violence in Eastern Europe
- Antisemitism and Judaeophobia: A Critical Analysis of the Development in European Anti-Jewish Sentiment During the Interwar Period
- As German is to the Germans: The Yiddishism of Khayim Zhitlovski (1865-1943)
- Belarus in Berlin/Berlin in Belarus: Moyshe Kulbak’s Raysn and Meshiekh ben-Efrayim
- Children and War
- Creation of a Survivor Voice: Radio and Early Holocaust Narratives
- Destructive Creators: Jewish Immigrant Bankers, the Business of Mass Migration and the Failures that Reshaped American Finance, 1914
- East meets West: Yidishe Meydlekh
- Everything Is Illuminated
- Fall 2012 Program Summary
- From the YIVO Archives: The Rothschild Talmud
- From the YIVO Archives: The Unknown Memoir of Tuvia Bielski
- Gallery Talk: The Jews of Tsarist Russia
- Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech
- In Search of Khaykl Lunski
- Jews and the Left
- Legitimizing the Revolution: Rhetorical and Intertextual Strategies in the Discourse of the Beis Yakov Movement
- Mordkhe Schaechter Commemoration
- Nusakh Vilne Memorial Lecture and Concert
- On the Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War
- Psychoanalysts on the Left and the Far Left
- Reclaiming the Jewish Narrative in Lithuania Today
- S. An-sky: Writing the History of Jews in the First World War
- Shakespeare and Polish-Jewish Relations: The Reception of Shakespeare's Dramas in the Yiddish Theater in Poland
- Sholem Aleichem, Joseph Achron, and the Music of Stempenyu
- Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series: Fall Concert 2012
- Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series: Spring Concert 2012
- Spring 2012 Program Summary
- The Broder Singers: Forerunners of the Yiddish Theater
- The History of the YIVO Library
- The History of YIVO
- The Jewish Antifascist Committee and Its Foreign Delegation
- The Jews of Tsarist Russia
- The Life of a Vilna Ghetto Rescuer: Reading, Writing, Remembering
- The Politics of Hate: The Image of "the Jews" in the Russian and Polish Political Discourses at the Turn of the Century
- The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Eastern Europe
- The Scorched Melting Pot: Yiddish Culture and American Communism After World War II
- The St. Petersburg School: The Music of Leo Zeitlin (1884-1930)
- The Tragedy of Leon Trotsky
- The Transnational Vilna Troupe(s): A New Look at a Yiddish Theater Landmark
- The Wise Men of Chelm: Eastern European Jewry’s Favorite Folk Tradition and its Origins
- The Works of Chaim Grade
- Watch the Throne: Spectacle and Specters in the Stories of Reb Nakhmen and Der Nister
- When Our Bubbas and Zeydas Were Young: The Schaechter Sisters on Stage
- Yiddish Writers Monologues: Yosl Birshteyn 'A Kiss in Jerusalem'
- YIVO’s Aspirantur and the Training of Jewish Scholars in Eastern Europe on the Eve of the Holocaust
- Zionism and Patriotism: The Jews of Italy in the Early Twentieth Century
- 'If We Will It': A History of the Yiddish Encyclopedia
- Choosing Yiddish: The Future of Yiddish Studies
- American Yiddish Literature: A Tubercular Perspective
- An Evening with the Klezmatics: A Benefit for the YIVO Institute
- Annual Mordkhe Schaechter Memorial Program
- Babel in Yiddish / Yiddish in Babel
- Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890-1940
- Celebration of the New Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary
- Dubnov, Freud & Husserl: The Creation of Modern Consciousness in Eastern European Jewish Culture
- Easy to be a Jew: The Jewish Experience in China
- First Annual New Land Film Festival
- Floating Worlds and Future Cities: The Genius of Lazar Khidekel, Suprematism, and the Russian Avant-Garde
- Forging a Field: Recovering Uriel Weinreich’s Research on Yiddish Culture in Eastern Europe
- It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past
- Jewish Rights, National Rites: Exploring the Origins of Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe
- Jews and Words: A Celebration of Jewish Writing, Language, and Expression
- Laughing All the Way to Freedom
- Old Solomon Levy in Petticoat Lane: Yiddish Popular Songs of London's East End 1880-1940
- Rise Up! Revolution or Class Mobility: Anglo-Yiddish Poems and Songs as Agents of Political Debate 1884-1914
- Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series: Spring Concert 2013
- Sovietization in the Pale: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk, the Jerusalem of Belorussia
- Strained Relations: Israel and Its Emigrants in the 1950s
- The Taste of Ashes
- Visions of a Jewish Future: Jewish Bakers, Community Organizing and Yiddish Culture in East Los Angeles
- Winter-Spring 2013 Program Summary
- Yiddish in the City: SF to NYC
- Yom HaShoah Program commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Yosef Kerler: Poet and Dissident
- 'Did Herzl Really Say That?'
Screening and Discussion - April 22, 2007 - 'Sigmund Freud, Dec. 2-4, 2006'
- Laurent d’Aumale sings the songs of Mordkhe Gebirtig
Yiddish Concert - June 27, 2007 - Nusakh Vilne Yizker and Memorial Lecture
- The Frank Family That Survived
- Uriel Weinreich: The Father of Yiddish Scholarship in America
Conference - March 25, 2007
Self-Conceptions: Women, Creativity, and Jewish Identity
- Biographies
- Registration
- Selected Publications and Films
- Self-Conceptions: Women, Creativity, and Jewish Identity
Sept. 14, 2006 - Inaugural Sidney Krum Annual Concert
- Biographies
- Registration
- The Many Worlds of Jewish Cabaret: Staging the Journey from Tradition to Modernity
Sept. 26, 2006 - 'Jewish Journalists, American Journalism'
- June 8, 2006 - Lecture & Concert: 'Cultural Resistance in the Face of Nazi Persecution''
- March 2, 2006 - Book Launch: 'My Future is in America'
- March 6, 2006 - Concert: 'Anton Rubinstein and his influence on Russian Classical Music'
- May 24, 2006 - Lecture: 'The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity'
Article Storage
- Educational Program on Yiddish Culture
- Highlights from the Photographic Archive
- Other Collections
- Photograph & Prints Collections
- Photographs & Prints Overview
- Archives & Collections Restored
- Donate Materials
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- Rescuing the Past
- YIVO's Preservation Program (old)
About YIVO
Directors & Staff Contact List
- 2010 Staff Contact List
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- Brief Introduction
- Further Reading on YIVO's history (1925-2005)
- The Early Years
- Timeline/Time Capsule
- What does that logo mean?
- World War II
- YIVO in the United States
- 2007 Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska Prize at YIVO Awarded to Joanna Tokarska-Bakir
- 2009 Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska Prize at YIVO Awarded to Aleksander B. Skotnicki
- 2010 Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska Prize at YIVO Awarded to Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov
- 2011 Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska Prize at YIVO Awarded to Marcin Wodziński
- 2012 Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska Prize at YIVO Awarded to Alina Skibinska
- 8th Annual YIVO Heritage Luncheon on May 6, 2009, to Honor Saul Kagan, Drs. Emilia and Alexander Sedlis, and Eta Wrobel (in memoriam)
- Letters to Afar at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews
- A Celebration of the Life and Works of Bronx Native Author, Chaim Grade
- Avrom Sutzkever (1913-2010) z
- Avrom Sutzkever (1913-2010):
YIVO Planning Feb 22 Memorial - Columbia University Libraries and YIVO Announce Joint Preservation Initiative for Historic Yiddish Newspapers
- Exhibition on the Hebrew Actors' Union and the Yiddish Stage Funded by Eli Broad Opens at the YIVO Institute
- Fall 2012 Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert: "Jewish Composers: A German Connection"
- Floating Worlds and Future Cities: The Genius of Lazar Khidekel, Suprematism, and the Russian Avant-Garde
- Jonathan Brent, YIVO Executive Director and CEO, Visits Moscow and Vilnius:
Building New Working Partnerships - Lithuanian Prime Minister Visits YIVO
- Martin Flumenbaum Joins the YIVO Board of Directors
- Mlotek, Slobin Receive Honorable Mention for YIVO Publication
- New YIVO Jewish Culture Series to be Launched at Riverdale Temple
- NYANA Transfers Historic Records of 60 Years of Mass Immigration to the YIVO Archives
- Otto Frank file
About YIVO - Otto Frank file
Essay by Prof. David Engel - Otto Frank file
Essay by Prof. Richard Breitman - Otto Frank file
Timeline of Key Events - Press Release -
Otto Frank File Found at YIVO - Ruth Gay Seminar in Jewish Studies Established at YIVO
Inaugural Session: Sunday, September 7, 2008 - Steinberg Charitable Trust Awards $300,000 Challenge Grant
For Online YIVO Encyclopedia Project
Matching Fund Effort Underway : Cahnman Foundation Pledges $25,000 - The 2008 Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska Prize at YIVO
Awarded to Szymon Rudnicki - The History of the YIVO Library
- The YIVO Institute and the Museum of the History of Polish Jews Announce Landmark Partnership Agreement
- The YIVO Institute and the National Library of Israel Jointly Acquire the Estate of the Late Yiddish Writer, Chaim Grade
- Touro College and YIVO Institute to Sponsor
'Rabbis and Rebbes - Artists and Intellectuals' - YIVO Celebrates Israel at 60 with New Exhibition
- YIVO Encyclopedia Makes Its Debut as the Definitive Reference Work on Jews in Eastern Europe
- YIVO Encyclopedia Receives Awards
- YIVO Institute to Host International Conference on Jews and the Left, Sunday and Monday, May 6 and 7, 2012
- YIVO Institute to Receive Major Gift To Create New Gallery
- YIVO Launches Milstein Website on New York Jewish Communal History
- YIVO Launches Online Edition of The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe:
Enhancement of Critically Acclaimed Work Adds Selections from YIVO’S Vast Archive of Images and Media - YIVO Launches The Online Guide to the YIVO Archives
- YIVO Names Jonathan Brent Executive Director and CEO
- YIVO Receives Largest Single Gift in Its History:
Bequest of Mickey Ross Yields $4.5 Million - YIVO to Hold Conference on Simon Dubnow on October 24
- YIVO to hold Milstein Conference on “New York and the American Jewish Experience” on November 2, 2009
- YIVO to Honor Alan M. Dershowitz and Matthew Goldstein at 84th Annual Benefit Dinner on May 26, 2009
- YIVO to Honor Lawrence H. Summers at 83rd Annual Benefit Dinner on May 13, 2008
- YIVO to Host Panel Discussion on Madoff Affair
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
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Video Archives
- From Heretic to Hero
A Symposium on the Impact of Baruch Spinoza
29 Oct 2006 - Jewish Journalists, American Journalism
26 Sept 2006 - Jews and Money
24 Oct 2006 - Morality and Strategy in the War on Terror
The Israeli Experience
10 Oct 2006
- Annual Sidney Krum Concert; A Special Pre-Concert Discussion with the Klezmatics : 27 Nov 2007
- Galicia Mon Amour
Leon Wieseltier in conversation with Daniel Mendelsohn
16 Jan 2007 - Songs of Mordkhe Gebirtig
27 June 2007 - The Invention of Love? How Yiddish Poets Read Heinrich Heine
25 Oct 2007 - The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy - A Critical Response
5 Nov 2007 - Who Will Write Our History? 23 Oct 2007
- ¿Are We A People?
The Anomalies of Jewish Identity'
20 Feb 2007
- A Certain Justice : Jews, Poles and the Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals
10 Nov 2008 - Between Two Worlds : The Literary Works of Kalman Segal [1918-80]
01 Dec 2008 - Churchill and Zionism - Not by Sufferance : 27 March 2008
- Israel at 60 - the Strange Experience of Jewish Sovereignty : 6 April 2008
- Jews In Basketball - Alan Dershowitz in Conversation with Jeffrey Gurock : 31 Jan 2008
- Max Weinreich’s History of the Yiddish Language : A symposium celebrating a life’s work
14 Sept 2008 - One Hundred Years Since Czernowitz : 30 July 2008
- Psikhoanaliz un yidishkayt
19 Dec 2008 - Rabbis and Rebbes, Artists and Intellectuals - Roundtable Conversations on the Culture of Eastern European Jewry 19th-20th Century : 9 March 2008
- Rise and Fall of the Yiddish Empire : 13 March 2008
- The Failed Rehabilitation of Shomer the Novelist: Avrom Vevyorke's Revizye of 1931 and Soviet Yiddish Literary Theory : 10 Sept 2008
- What is Jewish Humor? Exploring Wit and Humor in Freud
29 Dec 2008 - YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe - A First Look : 11 March 2008
- YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe Celebration
12 March 2008
- Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland
22 Oct 2009 - Connecting Geography: Yiddish Songs in New York
26 Mar 2009 - Di oytsres fun Nukhem Stutshkov: Yidishe radioskriptn in der Nyu-Yorker shtot-bibliotek
24 Apr 2009 - Educating Moyshe or Corrupting Him? Polemics around the Novel Sanin in the American Yiddish Press ca.190830 Mar 2009
- EPYC Educators Seminar on East European Jewish Heritage
- Feminist Discourse in Women's Yiddish Press
12 Oct 2009 - Lessons and Legacies in Holocaust Survivor Families: Innovations in the Investigation of Intergenerational Responses
23 Sep 2009 - Milstein Conference on New York and the American Jewish Experience
2 Nov 2009 - Mordkhe Schaechter Commemoration
22 Mar 2009 - Poland, Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union? The Jews and the Lesser of Three Evils
05 Mar 2009 - Rudolf Kasztner: Jewish Wallenberg or Nazi Collaborator?
20 Oct 2009 - Shtetl on the High Seas: The Steamship Companies and Jewish Emigration from Eastern Europe
15 Sep 2009 - The Lodz Towers of Babel : Industry and Religious Politics in Lodz before World War I
28 Jan 2009 - The Yiddish Press in Israel: A Minority Press in its own Nation State (1948-2008)26 May 2009
- A Lesser Evil: Jewish-Lithuanian Political Cooperation at the Beginning of the 20th Century
19 Jan 2010 - Avrom Sutzkever Memorial
22 Feb 2010 - Batkhonim, purim-sphilers, shpilmener: der breyshes-mitos fun yidishn teater
30 Apr 2010 - Blut-bilbulim in Sovetn-farband
17 Dec 2010 - Chaim Grade Memorial on the 100th Anniversary of his Birth
4 Oct 2010 - Coming to America? Max Weinreich and the Making of YIVO in New York, 1939-1941
24 May 2010 - Conference on the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Simon Dubnow
24 Oct 2010 - Der poet inem landshaft oder landshaft inem poet?
29 Oct 2010 - Di hoyptshtot fun yidishland?
28 May 2010 - Empire of Charity: American Jews and the Rebuilding of Polish Lithuania, 1919-1939
8 Nov 2010 - Establishing Beys Ya’akov: Legitimizing Girls' Religious Education
13 Apr 2010 - Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore
11 Mar 2010 - Judaism: A Way of Being
16 Sep 2010 - Kinderland - yidishe lernbikher un der banem fun heym un heymland
19 Mar 2010 - Lenin's Jewish Question
22 Oct 2010 - Marginal and Marginalized: Tales of the Destitute, Orphaned, and Disabled in Jewish Eastern Europe
1 Apr 2010 - Masha Benya Memorial
14 Nov 2010 - Memorial for Soviet Yiddish Writers
12 Aug 2010 - Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World
4 Mar 2010 - Oyf dor-doyres: vos di kinder fun der sheyres hapleyte hern and lozn zikh hern
8 Oct 2010 - Remembering (in) the Mother Tongue: The Role of Yiddish in Israeli Autobiographical Expressions
13 May 2010 - Schaechter Memorial Lecture
2 May 2010 - Seeking Shulamis: The Life and Times of Avrom Goldfaden's Most Celebrated Operetta
12 Jul 2010 - Shimen Dzigan—der koyekh un koyekhlozikayt fun yidishn humor
13 July 2010 - Shloyme Mikhoels Memorial on the 120th Anniversary of his Birth
12 Dec 2010 - Slovak Jewish Heritage Talk
1 Nov 2010 - The Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series at YIVO
31 Jan 2010 - The Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series at YIVO
18 Nov 2010 - The Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series at YIVO
27 May 2010 - This Theatre is a Battlefield: How Antifascist & Zionist Performance Forged a New Jewish-American Identity, 1933-1948
9 Dec 2010 - Vos darf zayn di batsiung tsvishn khurbn-limudim un yidishe limudim?
16 Apr 2010 - We've translated it, to be read by the common people–
Jewish historical writing in Yiddish before the Haskalah
14 Dec 2010 - Written in Stone: Jewish Culinary Resistance to Mortality
22 July 2010 - YIVO Encyclopedia Website Launch
10 June 2010 - Zukhndik milkh un honik: yidish-teater in birobidzhan
19 July 2010 - “Ethnic Cleansing” and Genocide in Subcarpathian Rus’
1 Feb 2010
- A Celebration of Yiddish Literature in Honor of Boris Sandler
12 April 2011 - A “Russian Zion,” or a Jewish Nightmare?: Jewish Life in Tsarist Kiev
24 May 2011 - American Jews and Soviet Espionage
20 Sep 2011 - An alt-naye pedagogye farn yidishn teater
28 March 2011 - An Evening with Philip Roth
18 May 2011 - Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin
2 Oct 2011 - Creating Yiddishist Youth: Modern Secular Yiddish Education and the Turn to Youth in Interwar Vilna
17 May 2011 - Fania Lewando's Vegetarish Dietetisher Kokhbukh, Vilne 1938
1 April 2011 - From Holocaust to Life - Music by David Botwinik
21 July 2011 - Haynt–The Jewish Voice at Your Home
20 Jan 2011 - Hy Wolfe: An Evening of Songs and Stories
17 Oct 2011 - In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia
3 May 2011 - Max Weinreich and America
4 Dec 2011 - On the Road, Back in the Old Country: Memories and Maps of a Yiddish Dialectologist
8 March 2011 - Rechnitz: Austria’s Dirty Little Secret: A Rare Interview with Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek
4 April 2011 - Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series: Fall Concert 2011
17 Nov 2011 - Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series: Spring Concert 2011
12 May 2011 - Solemn Remembrance for the Murdered Soviet Yiddish Writers
10 Aug 2011 - Survival in the Shtetl: Reflections of Polish Jewish Economic Life in the Guttmacher Kvitlekh
31 March 2011 - The Jewish Policy of Russian Military and Civilian Authorities and the Crisis in the Russian Empire, 1914-1917
14 Nov 2011 - The Merchant of Venice in Yiddish
13 Jan 2011 - The Rise of David Levinsky: Realism, Sex, and Capital
10 March 2011 - The Vilna Ghetto Experience
22 Sep 2011 - Tsvishn martirologye un geshikhte: Elye Tsherikover un di akhrayesn fun a natsionaln historiker
20 May 2011 - Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky
15 Nov 2011 - Wilhelm Brasse's Photographs from Auschwitz–Testimony and Photography in Irek Dobrowolski's Portrait Photographer
21 March 2011 - Yiddish Dialects on Wings of Song: Re'ut Ben-Ze’ev
27 July 2011 - “Integrale Yidishkeyt”: Modern Yiddish Culture’s Turn Inward in Response to the Holocaust
24 Feb 2011 - “Polacks” or “Litvaks” –Are There Any Differences Between the “Polish” and “Lithuanian” Jews in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
3 Feb 2011
2012 Jews and the Left Conference
- Jews and the Left
6-7 May 2012 - YIVO Research Conference on Jewish Participation in Movements Devoted to the Cause of Social Progress
10-13 Sep 1964
- A kuk af Yosl Birshteyns tvishn eylbertn un zayn breytern politishn kontekst
11 May 2012 - Anti-Jewish Violence in Eastern Europe
1 Mar 2012 - Antisemitism and Judaeophobia: A Critical Analysis of the Development in European Anti-Jewish Sentiment During the Interwar Period
13 Sep 2012 - As German is to the Germans: The Yiddishism of Khayim Zhitlovski (1865–1943)
16 Mar 2012 - Belarus in Berlin/Berlin in Belarus: Moyshe Kulbak’s Raysn and Meshiekh ben-Efrayim
9 Feb 2012 - Children and War
23 Feb 2012 - Creation of a Survivor Voice: Radio and Early Holocaust Narratives
14 May 2012 - Der krumer shpigl: kartuns vos vayzn di pitshevkes fun tvishn-milkhomedikn yidishn lebn
1 Jun 2012 - Destructive Creators: Jewish Immigrant Bankers, the Business of Mass Migration and the Failures that Reshaped American Finance, 1914
5 Jun 2012 - Di Broder-zinger: forgeyer funem yidishn teater
24 Feb 2012 - East Meets West: Yidishe Meydlekh
21 Jun 2012 - From the YIVO Archives: The Rothschild Talmud
27 Nov 2012 - From the YIVO Archives: The Unknown Memoir of Tuvia Bielski
19 Apr 2012 - Fun a khazerishn ek...
20 Jul 2012 - Mordkhe Schaechter Commemoration
24 June 2012 - Psychoanalysts on the Left and the Far Left
22 Mar 2012 - S. An-sky: Writing the History of Jews in the First World War
28 Feb 2012 - Sholem Aleichem, Joseph Achron, and the Music of Stempenyu
30 Apr 2012 - Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series: Spring Concert 2012
10 May 2012 - The Broder Singers: Forerunners of the Yiddish Theater
2 Feb 2012 - The History of the YIVO Library
11 Dec 2012 - The Jewish Antifascist Committee and its Foreign Delegation
7 Feb 2012 - The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Eastern Europe
2 Apr 2012 - The Scorched Melting Pot: Yiddish Culture and American Communism after World War II
13 Feb 2012 - The Tragedy of Leon Trotsky
8 Mar 2012 - The Transnational Vilna Troupe(s): A New Look at a Yiddish Theater Landmark
5 Apr 2012 - The Wise Men of Chelm: Eastern European Jewry’s Favorite Folk Tradition and its Origins
5 Mar 2012 - When Our Bubbas and Zeydas Were Young: The Schaechter Sisters on Stage
22 Jan 2012 - Yiddish Writers Monologues: Yosl Birshteyn 'A Kiss in Jerusalem'
24 Apr 2012 - YIVO’s Aspirantur and the Training of Jewish Scholars in Eastern Europe on the Eve of the Holocaust
26 Mar 2012
- Babel in Yiddish / Yiddish in Babel
23 Apr 2013 - Floating Worlds and Future Cities: The Genius of Lazar Khidekel, Suprematism, and the Russian Avant-Garde
21 Apr 2013 - Forging a Field: Recovering Uriel Weinreich’s Research on Yiddish Culture in Eastern Europe
12 Mar 2013 - Jews and Words: A Celebration of Jewish Writing, Language, and Expression
10 Feb 2013 - Jews, You Should Fight to the Bitter End: Bogoraz's Literary Response to the Gomel' Pogrom
23 May 2013 - Laughing All the Way to Freedom
28 Jan 2013 - Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series: Spring Concert 2013
5 May 2013 - The Taste of Ashes
18 Apr 2013 - Yom HaShoah Program commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
7 Apr 2013