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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 recently received.

by ROBERTA NEWMAN These days, as events in Egypt feature prominently in the news, little thought is given to the rich Jewish life and culture that once flourished there before 1967 when a wave of persecution drove almost the entire Jewish population from the country. Only a handful of Jews live ...

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Prof. Michael Steinlauf of Gratz College will speak on I. L. Peretz and the revolution of 1905 at YIVO in Yiddish on Thursday, 7:00 PM, February 6th. The 1905 revolution motivated the great Yiddish writer to participate in new cultural, artistic and political arenas until his death in 1915. Itzik Gottesman spoke with Dr. Steinlauf on the subject of his talk.

דאָנערשטיק, דעם 6טן פֿעברואַר 7:00 אין אָוונט, וועט ד"ר משה־שײַע שטײַנלויף, אַ פּראָפֿעסאָר פֿון געשיכטע בײַם „גרעץ־אוניווערסיטעט" אין פּענסילווייניע, רעפֿערירן בײַם ייִוואָ וועגן  „פּרץ אין אַ צײַט פֿון רעוואָלוציע". ד"ר שטײַנלויף פֿירט אָן מיט דער „חורבן־ און גענאָציד־שטודיעס־פּראָגראַם" און איז באַקאַנט פֿאַר זײַנע פֿאָרשונגען פֿון די פּוילישע ייִדן אינעם 20סטן יאָרהונדערט, און בפֿרט פֿונעם ייִדישן לעבן אין וואַרשע, סײַ מכּוח דעם פּאָליטישן, סײַ דעם קולטורעלן לעבן.

ד"ר שטײַנלויף אַליין האַט וואַרשעווער ייִחוס. זײַן משפּחה שטאַמט פֿון דור־דורות גערער חסידים אין דער שטאָט, וועלכע האָבן געהאַט אַ גרויס אײַזנוואַרג־געשעפֿט און געווען פֿון די אַנטוויקלערס פֿון ייִדישן מסחר אין וואַרשע. זייערע קבֿרים שטייען נאָך אויפֿן וואַרשעווער בית־עולם.

by ROBERTA NEWMAN There are over 1800 record groups (collections) in the YIVO Archives. With this column, we are inaugurating a series that will profile selected record groups, presenting highlights of their contents, and whenever possible, sample digital images. The collections will be chosen almost at random, to play out the theory ...

In this episode, believed to have been broadcast on October 25, 1964, host Sheftl Zak interviews Yudel Mark, editor of the journal Yidishe Shprakh and co-editor of the Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language, about his work on the Great Dictionary and YIVO's involvement with the project. (Yudel Mark's papers ...

by ROBERTA NEWMAN Most of the rarest and oldest books in the YIVO Library are the remnants of the Strashun Library of Vilna (present day Vilnius, Lithuania), rescued by the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) branch of the Allied Armies (also known as the “Monuments Men”) at the end of ...

Spring Yiddish classes are here! Brush up on your grammar, tackle the Yiddish writers of the first world war, or read the Forverts.

Register for a course.

Have questions? Contact Jennifer Young or Leah Falk (lfalk@yivo.cjh.org).

YIVO congratulates the winners of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, especially our colleagues: Hasia Diner & Gennady Estraikh, editors of 1929: Mapping the Jewish World Gennady Estraikh is teaching a course on Jewish Literary Life in the Soviet Union for the YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization. Elissa Bemporad, author of Becoming ...

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