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Abraham Mapu was a seminal figure in the rise of modern Hebrew literature.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Samuel Kassow as the 2016 Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar in East European Jewish History.

The Strashun Library contains many important secular Hebrew works.

Rare posters from Displaced Persons Camps digitized.

What roles did Nazi-appointed Jews play in the death camps?

Outside media articles from 2016 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

YIVO mourns the passing of Hinda Jacobs on December 28, 2015. Hinda was a volunteer in the YIVO Archives for over 10 years at its 15 West 16th Street, NY location, where she wrote at least 50 finding aids.

Questionnaires were a favorite research tool of YIVO in the 1920s-30s.

This episode was originally broadcast on January 21, 1968. Yudel Mark, the editor of the journal Yidishe shprakh (Yiddish Language) discusses the importance to Jewish history of the 1908 Czernowitz Conference, the first international conference devoted to Yiddish. 1968 marked the 60th anniversary of the event. From 1963-1976, YIVO had its ...

An American trade journal travels back and forth across the Atlantic.