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On Sunday, December 7, 2014, YIVO’s Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies and NYU’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies held a symposium for scholars on Der Tog (The Day), the Yiddish daily that began publishing in New York in 1914, and then, after a merger with another ...

YIVO congratulates this year’s Jordan Schnitzer Book Award winners. The annual prizes are awarded by Association for Jewish Studies every December to honor outstanding scholarship in Jewish Studies. This year’s roster of winners includes two scholars who have used YIVO’s Archives and Library as research resources and who have appeared as ...

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 ...

Every month, the YIVO Library receives complimentary copies of books whose content has been drawn in part from research done by the authors in the YIVO Archives and Library. Below is a partial list of books published in 2013-2014. Berkovitz, Jay R. Protocols of Justice, the Pinkas of the Metz Rabbinic ...

A Ruth Gay Seminar in Jewish Studies about Lithuanian-born Herman Bernstein (1876-1935) was an author, translator, journalist, communal activist, and diplomat, given by Mal Berisha, is Ambassador of the Republic of Albania to the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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 ...

This episode of YIVO’s radio program on WEVD was originally broadcast on April 18th, 1965. To commemorate the uprising in Warsaw Ghetto that took place on the first night of Passover in 1943, host Sheftl Zak talks about artifacts donated to the YIVO archives. Using I.L. Peretz’s short story “Dray ...

Letters to Afar

The YIVO/Museum of the City of New York installation, Letters to Afar, continues to receive long, thorough reviews, including “Péter Forgács’ Memory Art Brings Phantoms of Eastern Europe to Light,” by J. Hoberman in Tablet; “New film exhibit gives moving glimpse of pre-WWII Jewish Poland” in The Times of Israel; and “A Monument to the World Before the Holocaust,” by Anya Ulinich in The Jewish Daily Forward. (The last was also translated into Yiddish for the Yiddish Forverts.)

Other YIVO Projects & Public Programs

YIVO’s award of the 2014 Jan Karski Award to poet and essayist Piotr Matywiecki was announced on the website of the Jewish Historical Institute.

Professor Jerzy Tomaszewski, an eminent Polish historian, died in Warsaw on November 4, 2014. Professor Tomaszewski was a leading presence in the research community in Poland that devotes itself to the history of Jews in Poland. Professor Tomaszewski was the author of numerous works on the history of Jews in Poland. ...

David Fishman talks about 3 artifacts rescued from looting by the Nazis.