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The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is dedicated to the preservation and study of the history and culture of East European Jewry worldwide. We are the home of the foremost archives and library on this history and the presenter of acclaimed exhibitions, concerts, and lectures.
YIVO is dedicated to fostering knowledge of the history and culture of East European Jewry. Find out about upcoming YIVO programs and view a video & audio archive of past events. Learn more about our Archives & Library and how to do research on-site and online.
Fall & Spring Classes. For all adult learners curious to start learning or continue studying Yiddish, YIVO offers multiple levels of proficiency, from complete beginner to highly advanced. Select a beginner, intermediate, or advanced class at a level that is right for you.
Welcome to the YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum. For 95 years, the great archives and library of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research have supplied scholars and researchers with information about the real life of the Jewish people of Eastern Europe and Russia.
Find out about upcoming YIVO programs and view a video & audio archive of past events.
Founded in 1925, YIVO (Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut, or Yiddish Scientific Institute) became the leading institution for scholarship in Yiddish and about the history and culture of East European Jews and their emigrant communities.
The only resource of its kind, this encyclopedia provides the most complete picture of the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present.
Begin your research online by consulting the Guide to the YIVO Archives or searching the YIVO Library in the online public access catalog of the Center for Jewish History. Access thousands of digital images and more on the YIVO family of websites.
This is a shared experience between the exhibitions on the lives of Yitskhok Rudashevski and Beba Epstein. The world was changing rapidly. The essays produced by Yitskhok’s classmates show their personal views and hopes about what they know and expect in the near and more distant future.
In 2009, Brent became Executive Director and CEO of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, where he initiated the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project to conserve and digitize all of YIVO’s pre-WWII collections.
