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YIVO in the News & Staff Notes, December 2014

1/9/2015

YIVO's 89th Annual Benefit, which honored Faina Kukliansky, the Hon. Anne E. Derse, and Dr. Yitzhak Arad, has received attention in Lithuana, including the websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuaniaand the Jewish Community of Lithuania. The Letters to Afarexhibition at the Museum of the City ...

YIVO's Activities Around the World (1965)

1/9/2015

In this episode, originally broadcast on April 9, 1965, Hannah Fryshdorf comes into the studio to talk about YIVO’s worldwide reach. Over her long career, Fryshdorf rose to be the Assistant Director of YIVO. Her personal papers can be found in the YIVO archives (RG 1243). She first talks about ...

Di gantse velt af a firmeblank: The World of Jewish Letterheads

1/9/2015

Assemble the letterheads of Jewish organizations, institutions, and individuals in Europe, North and South America, and Palestine from the 1890s to the eve of World War II in 1939 and you have a portrait of the Jewish world: transnational; diverse in language, political, and religious orientation; and flourishing. Di gantse velt ...

Rakhmiel Peltz Appointed YIVO’s Inaugural Atran Visiting Professor of Yiddish Language and Linguistics

1/5/2015

(NEW YORK, January 5, 2015) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Rakhmiel Peltz as the inaugural Atran Visiting Professor of Yiddish Language and Linguistics. Dr. Peltz, a specialist in the social history of Yiddish language and culture, is the Founding Director of ...

2015

1/1/2015

Outside media articles from 2015 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

Modernism, Gender, and War in Early 20th Century Hebrew: Interview with Beverly Bailis

12/19/2014

From January 5-January 23, Beverly Bailis will teach “Modernism, Gender, and War in Early 20th Century Hebrew” in the YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization.

She currently teaches Hebrew and Hebrew literature at Brooklyn College. She received her BA in Literature from Bard College, her M.A. in Jewish Civilization from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her Ph.D. in Hebrew Literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary. In addition to specializing in Modern Hebrew Literature, Bailis’s research interests include Modern Jewish Literature, Gender Studies, and Modernism. Recently she completed her dissertation, “Fantasies of Modernity: Representations of the Jewish Female Body in Turn-of-the-Century Hebrew Fiction.” She has taught courses at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, the JCC in Manhattan, Town and Village Synagogue, and other adult education programs in New York City.

She is interviewed here by Leah Falk.

Koved zayn ondenk!: Dr. Benjamin Nadel (1918 - 2014)

12/19/2014

YIVO mourns the passing of Dr. Benjamin Nadel, who died last last week on December 11 at the age of 96. Dr. Nadel was a linguist and a scholar of Ancient Greek and Yiddish, who received his early education in the Yiddish secular schools in Vilna. He was accepted into ...

Let’s try this again!: Congratulations to Jordan Schnitzer Book Award Winners

12/19/2014

Last week, we congratulated Jordan Schnitzer Book Award winners Rebecca Kobrin and James Loeffler. They richly deserve our mazel tovs but we were a year late: Oops! They were last year’s winners. This year’s winners of the annual prizes awarded by Association for Jewish Studies every December to honor outstanding scholarship ...

Di gantse velt af a firmeblank: The World of Jewish Letterheads

12/19/2014

Assemble the letterheads of Jewish organizations, institutions, and individuals in Europe, North and South America, and Palestine from the 1890s to the eve of World War II in 1939 and you have a portrait of the Jewish world: transnational; diverse in language, political, and religious orientation; and flourishing. Di gantse velt ...

YIVO and Yiddish Writers (1965)

12/19/2014

On this episode of YIVO’s radio program, originally aired on April 25, 1965, Yiddish and Hebrew writer, bibliographer, lexicographer, and journalist Moshe Starkman talks about important Yiddish writers and how YIVO in Vilna was influential in documenting and helping their careers. Today, Moshe Starkman's papers can be found in the ...