“People say I was a naughty child,” 11-year-old Beba Epstein wrote in 1933. She bumped into her parents’ china cabinet, shattering plates. She tore up her cousin Freydke’s best-in-class geography ...

A member of the board of directors of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has resigned, and another has been removed from the organization’s website, amid controversy over the organization’s ...

In honor of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s 100th birthday, we take a deep dive into the cultural institution’s massive Yiddish archive. In 1941, a group of intellectual Jews confined to the ...

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, which has just entered its 41st year, announced at a press conference today a program of expanded activity in the field of scholarship, publications and ...

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 ...

Not to be a buzz kill, but I’ve never been much of a pot smoker and don’t intend to start. But I do love Jewish material culture and learning about unexplored byways of Jewish history, which is why I ...

450 people attended a conference at the YIVO Institute for Jewish ResearchJTA The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, which preserves and promotes the study of Eastern European and Yiddish culture, ...

In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...

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.

Andrew Silow-Carroll is the editor-in-chief of JTA New York Jewish Week via JTA — The Holocaust all but destroyed a centuries-old Jewish civilization, while the war carved up nations and left the ...

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The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary in the aftermath of World War II. By Rob Tannenbaum A corporate executive ...