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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 423

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Photo of Yitskhok Rudashevski in the 1930s. (Courtesy of Ghetto Fighters' House Museum, Israel/ Photo Archive and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
July 20, 2024, 7:55 am
Now online, diary of teen shot by Nazis tells of desperation, fear, hope in Vilna Ghetto
In its second web-based exhibition, YIVO makes available the lucid observations of Yitskhok Rudashevski, a 15-year-old made wise beyond his years by a life of oppression
By Cathryn J. Prince
Jeffrey Shandler, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, is the author of 'Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum.' (Etty Lassman; Indiana University Press via JTA)
July 9, 2024, 2:24 am
In the 1940s, Jewish scholars planned a museum about the world they were losing
A new book details how, like the Nova exhibit that was opened amid Oct. 7 fallout, a YIVO collection in NYC sought to commemorate European Jewry even before the Holocaust’s end
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Chairman of the Supreme Islamic Council, with German dictator Adolf Hitler in 1941. (German Federal Archive via Wikimedia Commons)
February 25, 2024, 9:35 am
A New York Yiddish center finds Nazis lurking deep within Hamas’s ideology
Starting Feb. 26, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research sponsors a 3-part webinar with scholars countering the view that October 7 was ‘payback’ for Israel’s rule over the West Bank
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Jonathan Brent, executive director and CEO of YIVO, and Gitanas Nausėda, president of Lithuania, examine holdings in the Strashun Rare Books Room at YIVO's New York headquarters, Sept. 18, 2023 (YIVO: Melanie Einzig via JTA)
September 21, 2023, 1:28 pm
Lithuania president honors those who saved Jewish artifacts during and post-Holocaust
Gitanas Nausėda as guest of honor at small New York ceremony: ‘These acts [of rescue] are without any doubt unique examples of universal human principles to fight the evil’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Sephardic, Ashkenazi, and Mizrahi men in Jerusalem, c. 1900. (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research via JTA)
September 9, 2023, 10:57 am
NYC exhibit shows Israeli Hebrew didn’t kill Yiddish, it gave it a new nest to live in
‘Palestinian Yiddish: A Look at Yiddish in the Land of Israel Before 1948,’ opens this week, shows how the old language survived in the new Israel – sometimes hiding in plain sight
By Ghil‘ad Zuckermann
Chaim Grade and his wife Inna Hecker Grade, shown in the United States in 1978. The two met in Moscow in 1945. (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research via JTA)
February 26, 2023, 2:17 am
Writer Chaim Grade’s archive digitized: A Yiddish treasure with a dramatic backstory
YIVO Institute and National Library of Israel make renowned author’s papers available online after they were locked away by his widow for decades, inaccessible to researchers
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
The major characters from the Nickelodeon series 'SpongeBob Square Pants.' (Fair use)
June 14, 2022, 7:28 pm
SpongeBob SquarePants theme song gets Yiddish treatment
Eddy Portnoy, academic adviser and director of exhibitions at the YIVO Institute, gives beloved animated kid show’s theme a new Jewish spin
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Horticulturalist and activist Ed Rosenthal. (Christian Peacock/ YIVO)
May 11, 2022, 6:18 am
Is weed the Chosen People’s drug of choice? These artifacts suggest it may be
A new exhibit running through December at the YIVO Institute in NYC fires up the Jewish people’s relationship with marijuana from biblical times to the ‘Old Country’ and today
By Jordan Hoffman
A program cover from a 1920s Yiddish Press Ball in Warsaw is shown before and after conservation treatment. It and thousands of other posters can be seen as part of the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project. (YIVO/ via JTA)
January 13, 2022, 4:04 am
From reverent to raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online
After surviving decades hidden from Nazi and Soviet forces and years more of litigation over ownership, a priceless trove is now accessible to researchers and the public
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Pammy Brenner and David Frisch got engaged this weekend at the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research in the Center for Jewish History on 15 W. 16th St. (Courtesy/ via JTA)
December 22, 2021, 12:45 pm
Man proposes to fiancée in NY Yiddish library
Pammy Brenner spent countless hours in the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research during her studies, and David Frisch knew it would be the perfect place to get engaged
By julia GERGELY
A pair of historical ram's-horn shofars from The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection. (Bradley Strauchen-Scherer)
January 5, 2021, 3:58 pm
Join a curator on a virtual tour of the Met’s Ashkenazi Jewish treasures
Starting January 5, NY’s Metropolitan Museum of Art opens its collection for an online glimpse at medieval European Jews, showing the tastes of owners and artists at the time
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Some 450 people attended a conference at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York on the history of Yiddish Anarchism, January 20, 2019. (JTA Photo)
January 22, 2020, 8:42 am
Yiddish institute YIVO, facing budget shortfall, lays off all its library staff
Calling it a ‘very difficult decision,’ Institute for Jewish Research says archival staff will now help run the library
By Marcy Oster
Some 450 people attended a conference at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York on the history of Yiddish Anarchism, January 20, 2019. (JTA Photo)
January 24, 2019, 4:41 am
A YIVO conference finds a new audience for Yiddish anarchism
450 attendees, many of them anti-Zionists, flood a symposium looking to history for role models ‘in their quest to build a new, radical, positive Jewish identity’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
A group of anarchists in Warsaw mourn during the 1926 funeral of activist 'White Morits,' who had previously been imprisoned for anarchist activities. (Courtesy YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
January 20, 2019, 6:12 pm
A forgotten chapter: When Jewish America spoke Yiddish — and was anarchist
A January 20 conference hosted by the YIVO Institute covers a seldom-recognized piece of US Jewry’s immigrant experience — and one that may serve a marginalized sector today
By Gideon Grudo
Chantal Ringuet at Masada during a 2012 Israel visit. (Courtesy)
July 28, 2018, 11:08 pm
Leonard Cohen turned this Montreal francophone into a champion of Jewish culture
Raised Catholic, scholar and writer Chantal Ringuet learned Yiddish in order to make her city’s rich heritage available to fellow French Canadians
By Robert Sarner
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