YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

YIVO offers public lectures, Yiddish language instruction, publications, research fellowships, and graduate seminars through the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies. YIVO is in the forefront of preserving Yiddish language and literature, and in advancing scholarship in the fields of East European Jewish Studies and the American Jewish immigrant experience. Each year, more than 4,000 scholars, students, museum curators, writers, filmmakers, artists, performers, historians, and family history researchers visit the YIVO Library and Archives, the world's largest collection of Yiddish books, documents, and other artifacts related to the history of East European Jewry. YIVO is located at The Center for Jewish History, at 15 West 16th Street in New York City. Information number: (212) 246-6080 or [email protected]. Click here for YIVO's business hours.