Scholarships & Fellowships

YIVO plays a leading role in the education of students and scholars in fields related to the study of Jewish history and culture, including language and literature, folklore, theater and music, political and economic activity, and immigration history.

A designated scholarship gift helps support our Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, which takes place for six weeks every summer. Our students spend three hours every morning in formal language classes and have supplementary activities in the afternoons: lectures, films, workshops, and tours. The total cost of a summer in New York is more than $8,000. We offer full and partial scholarships. Your gift of even a few hundred dollars can make the difference and enable a student to attend the program.

In addition, YIVO has seven endowed research fellowships to support the work of emerging and established scholars in East European Jewish Studies. These fellowships enable a scholar doing doctoral or postdoctoral research to visit YIVO’s library and archives for one to three months. Lectures by many of these visiting scholars presented throughout the year are drawn from their work in YIVO collections and greatly enhance our ongoing program of lectures.

YIVO also offers internships to provide professional training for young people in the YIVO Archives and Library, and to educate future generations of archivists and librarians interested in East European Jewish history and Yiddish culture.

For more information on any of these ways of giving, please contact:

Melissa S. Cohen
Chief Development Officer
(212) 294-6156