Calendar of Classes

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This symposium features presentations that consider the historical and contemporary intersections between music, sound, and antisemitism.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is is appropriate for Yiddish students at the advanced level.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This lecture by Jurgita Verbickienė aims to explain the cultural processes that took place primarily in interwar Lithuania and which significantly influenced the linguistic integration of Lithuanian Jews, laying the foundations for their engagement with Lithuanian culture.

Jascha Nemtsov, in a discussion led by Alex Weiser, examines the fascinating and dramatic history of the New Jewish School of Music, which started with the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg.

Join 92NY and YIVO for an exploration of The Rudashevski Diary with experts discussing its legacy, translation, and insights on Jewish resilience during the Holocaust.

Dana Mihăilescu considers the history and memory of the fusgeyer movement, in which large numbers of impoverished, persecuted Jews suddenly decided to “go on foot” towards the U.S. and Canada.

Join YIVO for a panel discussion sharing new research on various historic YIVO initiatives featuring presentations by William Pimlott, Kamil Kijek, and Nicolas Vallois, followed by a conversation led by Jessica Kirzane.

Join YIVO for an enlightening journey to Lithuania and Poland. Reclaim your heritage as you examine the life that was lived in these lands. View the remarkable history of old Warsaw, Kraków, Vilnius, and Białowieża.

Join us for a celebration of YIVO’s 100th anniversary with a conference focusing on how YIVO’s founding vision for Jewish social sciences has been realized in America since its headquarters shifted to New York City in 1940.

This talk by Jeffrey Shandler will examine some of YIVO’s undertakings during the immediate postwar years, as its leaders forged a new sense of purpose in response to their radically altered circumstances.

This lecture by Joshua Price will provide an overview of the poetry of Chaim Grade, who, although known for his prose writing, published ten volumes of poetry which deal with the most pressing issues of his life and times.

Drawing from some 400 Yiddish-language interviews conducted by the Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories project, Jeffrey Veidlinger will explore how elderly Yiddish speakers described their memories of Jewish life in Soviet Ukraine and of survival during the Holocaust.

In this lecture, Diana Matut will delve deep into the history of lamentation in Yiddish song cultures through the exploration of laments, dirges and elegies.

Come and explore the rich history of Hungary, Austria, and Germany through a uniquely Jewish lens. This tour will visit beautiful synagogues, unrivaled museums, and landmarks of Jewish religious life and secular genius.

Through analyses of the films The Dybbuk and The Prince and the Dybbuk, this talk by Zehavit Stern will reflect on the haunting legacy of Eastern European Jewish life and on how cinema can preserve, possess, or lay claim to possession.

This talk by Ofer Dynes will explore how the shared experiences of immigrant Yiddish writers from Poland to America shaped their understanding of the role of Yiddish in American cultural life, how this vision evolved during World War II, and how their reimagining of Yiddish literature’s significance for American Jewry influenced their writings.

This lecture by Rebekka Voß will trace the journey of the legendary Ten Lost Tribes of Israel through both Jewish and Christian imaginations, from their medieval origins to their presence in Old Yiddish and modern Yiddish literature.

Yaad Biran discusses Mordecai Kosover’s research demonstrating that the history of Jews of the modern-day Land of Israel began decades before Rishon LeTzion, and that the Jewish community of the Land of Israel was very connected to a worldwide “Yiddishland.”

Nathaniel Deutsch will discuss The Digital Minhag Project, an interactive website built around a Yiddish-English version of Sh. An-ski's ethnographic questionnaire, that seeks to crowd-source contemporary Jewish customs, beginning with those still practiced by Hasidic communities.

Join YIVO on a journey of discovery across northern Italy, exploring the fascinating, troubled, and glorious history of Italian Jews in the northern tier, unfamiliar to most of us.