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How to re-examine Vladimir Jabotinsky, a man whose political life kept him almost constantly in the public eye?

On March 12, 2014, YIVO purchased a collection of more than 300 letters, poems, drawings, telegrams, and other miscellaneous papers at a Judaica auction by Kestenbaum & Company. The documents include both prewar and postwar letters to and from Abraham Sutzkever (1913-2010), one of the leading Yiddish poets of the twentieth ...

In this episode of YIVO’s radio program on WEVD, originally heard on January 10, 1965, Dr. Nosn Reich talks about the 39th Annual YIVO Conference, which would convene later that month in New York. Many of the upcoming episodes of the series focus on the conference and present excerpts from ...

Author Cecile E. Kuznitz talks about her book, the first full-length history of YIVO.

by J.D. ARDEN,Reference and Genealogy Assistant, Center for Jewish History Last week, April 27 – May 3, library and archival institutions observed Preservation Week. Among them, the organization Heritage Health has been working for the past decade on raising awareness of the state of cultural heritage collections in the U.S. In ...

by ROBERTA NEWMAN In June 1953, Yedies reported on the publication of a new issue of Yidishe shprakh (Yiddish language). Topics covered range from detailed discussions of grammar to the varieties of uses of the word tsores (troubles). The scholars who wrote for Yidishe shprakh were 60 years closer than we ...

For Immediate Release
May 2, 2014

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
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NEW YORK, N.Y.   The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce the launch of the YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland, at polishjews.yivoarchives.org. The website provides access to thousands of digitized documents, manuscripts, photographs, artworks, films, and audio recordings relating to the rich and vibrant Jewish community in Poland before World War II.  Conceived as an educational experience and a research tool, the new website has been developed to serve a broad audience of both the general public and scholars.

In Ida, filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski uses the story of a young novice in a convent who discovers her own past as a hidden Jewish child to explore not only the Holocaust, but also postwar Poland under Communism. “Ida may not end on exactly the note some viewers might wish, hoping, no ...

On December 27, 1964, host Sheftl Zak answered questions from listeners. Topics included YIVO’s plans for 1965, including projects related to its folklore collections and the upcoming publication of Uriel Weinreich’s Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary (the dictionary was first published three years later, in 1968). From 1963-1976, YIVO had its own ...

On April 29, Tablet Magazine published an interview with Ukrainian dissident Josef Zissels, “The Head of the Jewish Community of Ukraine Speaks Out Against Putin,” by David Mikics. Zissels was interviewed at YIVO after his appearance in the April 24 YIVO program, “What Now? Jews and the Ukrainian Revolution 2014.” The event was reported on in Newsday by Cathy Young.

Cecile Kuznitz, Director of Jewish Studies at Bard College and the author of the new book, YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture (Cambridge University Press) visited Vilnius, where she gave a series of lectures and was interviewed for Lithuanian radio. An article about Professor Kuznitz and the book also appeared in the local English newspaper: “New Book Celebrates Vilnius Litvak Legacy.”