YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Find out how to make delicious latkes with this recipe from From Love and Knishes: An Irrepressible Guide to Jewish Cooking by Sara Kasdan, with illustrations by Louis Slobodkin. New York: Vanguard, 1956. (YIVO Library)

Richard Ovenden examines the deliberate destruction of libraries and archives over the past 3,000 years. Why were they targeted and how have libraries and archives responded?

Chanukkah party at Furstenfeldbruck Displaced Persons Camp, Germany. #fromtheyivoarchives

Sign up before it's too late! There are only a few spots remaining in this Advanced Yiddish Intensive course for students who have previously taken three years of Yiddish.

Joel Engel's "Jewish Folksongs" Volumes I & II, have inspired and influenced many composers yet they are little known today. Join us as singer Lucy Fitz Gibbon with pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, with a special guest appearance by Yurie Mitsuhashi, perform these 20 songs.

Twitter and Facebook banning Holocaust denial on their platforms. http://bit.ly/social-denial-ban

Five people representing the Senior League of the Union Temple and several other Brooklyn organizations light a menorah for Chanukah. #fromtheyivoarchives

Conducted in Yiddish, this class will read popular Yiddish children's stories. For advanced-beginner or beginner-intermediate students.

"We in the present find safety in those black and white photos of 'then'. If they appear to be of 'now, then the reality of the terror and horror of those times, can speak directly to us in these times." http://bit.ly/toi-ytu

When my mother passed away in 2012, I thought I’d never be able to learn any more about her. But then this journal fell out of the sky, and it was something of a miracle...I’ve been granted so much insight onto who she really was as a person." http://bit.ly/sajr-museum

Join Hallel Yadin (Archives Associate) and Leo Greenbaum (YIVO's Accessions Archivist / Bund Archivist) this Archives Week for a peek into the collections of the largest archive on Eastern European Jewish history in the world. https://www.nycarchivists.org/event-4020441

The Claims Conference has negotiated for Holocaust survivors to receive additional payments from Germany for the next two years.