Diaspora is the unifying experience of the Jewish people. Cobbling life together during fits and starts of settlement, exile, and persecution, Jews have always had to build communities out of whatever ...

Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired the book, “Sons and Daughters” — the last novel by the late, great Yiddish ...

Objects of Jewish life and Rare Archival Documents at the first Lithuanian exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary of YIVO Part II. Opened in the beginning of March 2025 at the Vilnius Picture ...

NEW YORK — On the third floor of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Stefanie Halpern, director of archives, carefully held up a nearly century-old agricultural map of what was then Belorussia.

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Evolution is a process that can take many millennia, if not longer. For a scholarly organization like the Yiddish archive and cultural institution YIVO, the process only took a century. YIVO (the ...

When technology and storytelling converge, an online exhibition can create deeply immersive, accessible and educational experiences Karolina Ziulkoski Photo of Yitskhok Rudashevski in the 1930s.

Years ago, when I worked at the Forward, I had a cameo in a real-life Yiddish drama. A cub reporter named Max Gross sat just outside my office, where he answered the phones. A frequent caller was Inna ...

The bright hallways, expansive staircases and sleek sofas don’t reveal what is beyond the glass doors at the Center for Jewish History in New York City. It was a rare visit at a historical juncture ...

Manuscripts, letters, photos and speeches from a giant of Yiddish literature, long kept out of view by his late widow, are now online. (JTA) — Years ago, when I worked at the Forward, I had a cameo in ...

The horrors of the Holocaust were met with various forms of resistance. Some insurgents fought back by smuggling food and weapons into Jewish ghettos. Tonight, we'll tell you about a very different ...