The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Podcast

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Podcast

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A podcast from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research featuring talks, lectures, and cultural programming on Jewish history, language, and culture. Learn more at www.yivo.org

Marc Chagall: Reflections of a Granddaughter

March 19, 2026

Marc Chagall

Hosted by YIVO Institute

Marc Chagall is widely recognized as the preeminent Jewish artist of the 20th century, but little is known of his work to preserve Jewish culture. In …

Jewface: “Yiddish” Dialect Songs of Tin Pan Alley

March 16, 2026

Jewface

Hosted by YIVO Institute

With his fake beard, putty nose, and thick Yiddish accent, the “stage Jew” was once a common character in vaudeville, part of a genre that mocked immi…

An Evening with Philip Roth: A Conversation with Bernard Avishai, Igor Webb, and Steven Zipperstein

March 13, 2026

An Evening with Philip Roth

Bernard Avishai, Igor Webb, and Steven Zipperstein
Hosted by YIVO Institute

The YIVO Institute was pleased to present a special evening with acclaimed novelist Philip Roth. Roth read excerpts from his new novel, Nemesis (2010…

The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City with Henry Sapoznik

March 8, 2026

The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City

Henry Sapoznik
Hosted by YIVO Institute

The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City (SUNY Press, 2025) offers a new look at over a century of Yiddish culture in New York City. Author …

Vladka Meed's "On Both Sides of the Wall"

March 6, 2026

Vladka Meed's "On Both Sides of the Wall"

Vladka Meed, Steven D. Meed Translator
Hosted by YIVO Institute

Vladka Meed, born Feigele Peltel, was just a teenager when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. Increasingly devastated by the deportation and murder o…

The Shtetl: Myth and Reality

February 27, 2026

The Shtetl

Samuel Kassow
Hosted by YIVO Institute

Even those who do not know much Yiddish have probably heard the word “shtetl,” but what does that word mean exactly? Can we just say that it was a sma…