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YIVO Receives Grants from the Nathan Ruderman Foundation and The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
NEW YORK, NY – The YIVO Institute is pleased to announce that it has received two generous grants for work on the Sutzkever-Kaczerginski Collection, which contains some of the rarest documents held in the YIVO archives. The Collection is named in honor of the two distinguished poets who headed the ...
Remembering Mikhl Herzog
Mikhl Herzog, 1927-2013 On Sunday, January 5, 2014, at 1:00 pm, YIVO will celebrate the life, work, and contributions to Yiddish culture of Mikhl Herzog, in a special memorial program. Mikhl Herzog (1927-2013) was the founding Dean of the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at YIVO, and the editor-in-chief of ...
ייִדיש־נײַעס פֿון דער אַקאַדעמישער וועלטYiddish News from the Academic World
פֿון איציק גאָטעסמאַן
The field of Yiddish studies was well represented at the annual Association for Jewish Studies conference in Boston, Dec. 15 - 17, 2013. Yiddish literature in particular has attracted many scholars around the world. (First of a two-part report)
יעדעס יאָר טרעפֿט זיך די „אַסאָציאַציע פֿון ייִדישע שטודיעס" (Association for Jewish Studies) אין מיטן דעצעמבער, און געוויינטלעך, קומט מען זיך צונויף אין באָסטאָן. הונדערטער פּראָפֿעסאָרן און סטודענטן האַלטן רעפֿעראַטן אויף די טעמעס פֿון זייער פֿאָרשונג, און די צאָל מענטשן, וועלכע פֿאַרנעמען זיך מיט פֿאָרשונגען וועגן ייִדיש איז אַ ממשותדיקע, בפֿרט וועגן דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור.
אין איין סעסיע מכּוח די ביאָגראַפֿיעס פֿון ייִדישע שרײַבערס, האָבן דרײַ לעקטאָרן באַהאַנדלט זייערע פֿאָרשונגען פֿון דרײַ מחברים — איציק מאַנגער, יעקבֿ אַבראַמאָוויטש (מענדעלע מוכר־ספֿרים) און שלום ראַבינאָוויטש (שלום־עליכם). פּראָפֿ׳ מאַריאָן אַפּטרוט האָט געפֿירט דעם פֿאָרזיץ.
Video Oral Histories Highlight YIVO History and Yiddish Culture
Two of the over 300 Wexler Oral History videos recorded at the Yiddish Book Center over the past few years document the lives of people we have recently commemorated in Yedies. Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman (1920-2013) Chana Mlotek (1922-2013) Two interviews also explore the history of YIVO: Professor Cecile Kuznitz, author of a forthcoming book on ...
From the Pages of Yedies
by ROBERTA NEWMAN Six years into World War II, in September 1944, Yedies published excerpts from letters YIVO had recently received from young Jewish soldiers serving in Allied forces. The letters spoke about the destruction of Jewish communities in Europe, encountered as the American, British, and Russian armies penetrated further into ...
Rethinking Kishinev: How a Riot Changed 20th-Century Jewish History
Kishinev’s 1903 pogrom was the first event in Russian Jewish life to receive international attention. The riot, leaving 49 dead in an obscure border town, dominated the headlines of the western press for weeks, intruded on US-Russian relations, and had an impact on an astonishing array of institutions, such as ...
Max Weinreich on Jewish Participation in Movements for Social Progress
YIVO sometimes used its airtime on WEVD to broadcast recordings of its scholarly conferences. Here, Dr. Max Weinreich delivers the opening address at YIVO's Conference on Jewish Participation in Movements Devoted to the Cause of Social Progress, which took place in Carnegie Hall on September 10-13, 1964. From 1963-1976, YIVO had ...
From the Pages of Yedies
by ROBERTA NEWMAN In December 1935, Yedies reported on the initial activities of a new division at YIVO devoted to research on Jews and sports. The ambitious goals of the Sports Division were: The establishment of a central archive of materials on Jewish sports movements in Poland and elsewhere; The creation of a ...
Music Treasures of the American Yiddish Theater: Interview with Matt Temkin
On Sunday, December 15, 2013 at 3:00 pm, YIVO will celebrate the work of the most popular composers from the golden age of Yiddish American theater, otherwise known as the “big four of Second Avenue”: Abraham Ellstein, Alexander Olshanetsky, Sholom Secunda, and Joseph Rumshinsky. This concert features the composers’ hits ...
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman: August 7, 1920 - November 28, 2013
YIVO mourns the loss of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, who died last week at the age of 93. Beyle, one of the greatest contemporary writers of Yiddish song and poetry was an inspiration to younger generations interested in Yiddish culture. Her packed funeral on December 1 on the Upper West Side was ...