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

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

Sonia Dratwa-Pinkusowitz guides students through I.L. Peretz’s classic Yiddish stories about family life.

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

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

Join us for a discussion featuring new scholarship drawing on Ruth Rubin's work by Isabel Frey and Miriam Borden, moderated by Mark Slobin, in honor of what would have been Rubin's 120th birthday.

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

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

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

This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

Vera Szabó guides students through excerpts from the memoir of educator, feminist, and Zionist Puah Rakovsky, examining its historical and cultural context, voice, and stylistic variation.

This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

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

Join us for a discussion moderated by Andrew Silow-Carroll about a new book by Kalman Weiser on the comprehensive history of YIVO, detailing its longstanding efforts to preserve Eastern European Jewish culture during a century of genocide and mass emigration.

This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

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 primarily for students who have completed Advanced II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

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

Ryan MacEvoy McCullough of Joseph Achron’s "Children's Suite" (1923): a collection of 20 character pieces for piano depicting the world of children.

Gayle Feldman, in a conversation moderated by Jonathan Brent, details how Bennett Cerf, co-founder of Random House, transformed American publishing and became one of its most influential cultural figures.

Aleksandra Jakubczak explores how Jews in Eastern Europe understood and experienced the body, sexuality, and desire in the modern era, looking beyond marriage and family life to examine a wide range of intimate experiences and practices.

In a discussion lead by Jeremy Dauber, Ofer Dynes and Svetlana Natkovich explore the intertwined histories of Jewish literature, identity, and nationhood in the Partitions of Poland and the Russian Empire, revealing how Jews used their artistic work to grapple with shifting political and social landscapes.

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

This weekly class develops 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 II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Netta Ehrlich examines Jewish self-defense as a response to anti-Jewish violence in the Russian Empire, exploring both the practice itself and how it was represented in literature and contemporary documentation.

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

For 2026’s commemoration of the Jewish community of Vilna, Alyssa Quint discusses the work of folk bard and songwriter Eliakum Zunser, followed by a performance of Zunser’s music by Maximillian Jansen and Daniel Schlosberg.

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

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

Itay Zutra offers a comparative study of the poetry written by the modernist group of New York Yiddish poets known as In Zikh, or the “Introspectivists,” in a discussion led by Justin Cammy.

J. Hoberman delves into the history of Yiddish cinema, a unique chapter in film history and an international enterprise that created a national cinema without a nation-state, speaking to Ashkenazi audiences.

Join us for an intimate evening of conversation celebrating the American premiere of Tfiles, a clarinet concerto by composer Alex Weiser, to be performed by clarinetist Andrzej Ciepliński and the American Composers Orchestra.

Samuel Kassow investigates YIVO’s Hersh Wasser collection and the insights it offers into the workings of the Oyneg Shabes archive that was organized in the Warsaw Ghetto, one of the most successful examples of cultural resistance in all of Nazi-occupied Europe.

Mikołaj Łoziński, in a conversation led by Irena Grudzinska Gross, tells the tragic story of the interwar years in Poland through the ordinary triumphs and struggles of a sprawling Polish-Jewish family.

Samuel Kassow explores the Oyneg-shabes archive as an act of spiritual and cultural resistance in the face of Nazi oppression.

Directed by Mikhl Yashinsky, this classic play reading will feature a telling of Sh. An-ski’s legendary 1916 folk drama of spiritual possession and predestined love.

Join YIVO for a screening of Jan Němec’s Diamonds of the Night, a film about two young Jewish men who escape from a train taking them to their death.

In a discussion moderated by Annie Polland, Tony Michels, Sam Adler Bell, and Hasia Diner reflect on the legacy of Irving Howe’s World of Our Fathers, a classic history of Eastern European Jewish immigrant life in America.

This talk by Anita Norich will trace the development of Yiddish literature from the early nineteenth century onward, examining its major writers, movements, and cultural contexts.

Celebrate the release of the two latest volumes in YIVO and Bloomsbury Academic’s Yiddish Voices series – Mississippi: A Yiddish Play about the Scottsboro Affair and Hasidic Warsaw: Reb Zalmen and the Aleksander Shtibl.

Dovid Katz provides an introduction to Yiddish’s origins, evolution, dialects, literature, and cultural history, separating enduring scholarly consensus from persistent myths and debates.

Enjoy a documentary tracing the history of Yiddish theater from its origins in Eastern Europe and early developments in America to the present day, detailing how musicians with humble origins became the voices of an entire immigrant generation.

Join us for an evening exploring the musical legacy of the Third Seder, the secular Passover celebration that became a vibrant feature of Yiddish cultural life in twentieth-century America.