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The Yiddish actor and director Zygmunt Turkow was born and raised in Warsaw, where he got his start on the stage and went on to co-found—in partnership with his wife at the time, actress Ida Kaminska—the influential dramatic troupe “Varshever Yidisher Kunst-Theater” (Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater; circa 1924-1928).

Elias Tcherikower was a founding member of YIVO in Vilna, a member of its Executive Committee, and Chairman of YIVO’s Historical Section from 1925-1940 as well as a historian and political activist.

Kronhill Pletka YIVO Research Fellow Ruby Landau-Pincus discusses her work on the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project.

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A list of the 51 collections from the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project available to view online, containing prewar YIVO administrative records, Yiddish theater and literature, Jewish community council records, and the personal papers of historical figures like Simon Dubnow and Shalom Schwarzbard. 

YIVO’s newest feature article in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, “Everyday People’s Troubles”: A Brif History of Yiddish Advice Radio in the United States, by Hallel Yadin, Archives Associate.

See the tenth article in the Jewish Renaissance column The Yiddishists, delving into the YIVO Archives.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce its upcoming program, Jewish Children's Literature in Russian and Yiddish, co-presented with the Bodleian Library.

YIVO presents a performance of Joel Engel's Jewish Folksongs Volume III (c. 1920) including 10 Jewish folksongs, dances, and Hasidic nigunim in virtuosic piano arrangements.

We at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research mourn the passing of our dear colleague, Marek Web (1938-2021).