A discussion with Joe Butwin, associate professor emeritus of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Washington, about his recent book of conversations with Jewish veterans of the Spanish Civil War.

February 12, 2023. Join us for a musical program and conversation with the "poet laureate of new Yiddish songwriting"!

Join the YIVO Sound Archivist for a virtual tour of the holdings of one of the world’s largest repositories of audio materials pertaining to the Ashkenazic experience.

Join German Historian Anette Isaacs on a captivating journey through the days of the Gold Rush to learn about Levi Strauss, a Bavarian Jew whose ingenious business sense and German ingenuity made the blue jeans world-famous.

Lecture from March 12, 2023. What led figures as diverse as Franz Kafka, Y. L. Peretz, and Else Lasker-Schüler to imagine European Jews in terms similar to colonized non-Western peoples?

Lecture from May 21, 2023. A personal account of Dr. Schwarz's decades long journey in the footsteps of Bashevis, the only Yiddish writer to receive the Nobel Laureate in literature

Lecture from April 30, 2023. German Historian Anette Isaacs presents fascinating insights into life in Jewish DP camps from 1945 to 1948.

Lecture Presented June 26th 2022 The history of the Yiddish theatre, from its birth in Rumania in 1876 through its golden age in New York City in the early 20th century. "The Whole Megillah: The Story of The Yiddish Theatre" covers the moment of its birth in Rumania in 1876, to its rapid spread across the Western Hemisphere, to its meteoric flowering into a Golden Age, a flowering that would last but a few short decades – and carry the seeds of its own destruction. It’s an amazing story, full of twists and turns that are – like Yiddish theatre itself – sometimes outrageous, sometimes poignant, but always melodramatic. Charles Troy, popular speaker and presenter, is an acclaimed musical theatre historian and graphic designer. Charles has created over 50 multimedia presentations and has presented his work to countless local and national audiences.