News & Features

The Board of Directors and staff of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research express our deep sorrow at the passing of the pedagogue, writer, and teacher Miriam Hoffman z"l.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, in partnership with Bloomsbury Academic, is delighted to announce the publication of Hasidic Warsaw: Reb Zalmen and the Aleksander Shtibl, the fifth volume in the acclaimed Yiddish Voices series.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is proud to announce the publication of Mississippi: A Yiddish Play about the Scottsboro Affair, the fourth volume in its acclaimed Yiddish Voices series, published in partnership with Bloomsbury Academic.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) and the Center for Jewish History (CJH) are thrilled to announce a kaleidoscopic new exhibition that presents a vibrant mashup of 1960s counterculture and Jewish culture through the trippy lens of underground artist Steve Marcus.

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.