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The Beilis Trial and Popular Culture
On Monday, November 4, YIVO will host a panel discussion in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Beilis Trial, a cause célèbre of its time. In 1911, a Jewish factory clerk, Mendel Beilis in Kiev, was falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy. His trial in 1913 was ...
The House at Ujazdowskie 16: Jewish Families in Warsaw After the Holocaust
On Tuesday, October 1, 2013, Karen Auerbach,Kronhill Lecturer at Monash University, spoke at YIVO about her new book, The House at Ujazdowskie 16: Jewish Families in Warsaw After the Holocaust. The book traces the history of ten families that were neighbors in one building as a case study of Jewish ...
די לידער פֿונעם בדחן משהלע שטאַם געפֿונען
פֿון איציק גאָטעסמאַן
Itzik Gottesman reports on how the music and texts of the songs of a 19th century badkhn, wedding entertainer, have been "reunited" in the YIVO archives, sound recording included!
דעם 22סטן יולי 2011 איז געשטאָרבן סילוויאַ האָפֿמאַן, אויך באַקאַנט ווי סילוויאַ יונין, אַ שרײַבערין און קינסטלערין, ווי אויך די אַלמנה פֿונעם שרײַבער, פּאָעט און פֿאָלקלאָריסט וואָלף יונין (1908 — 1984). צווישן אירע און איר מאַנס פּאַפּירן וואָס זי האָט איבערגעלאָזט דעם ייִוואָ־אַרכיוו, האָט זיך געפֿונען אַ ביכעלע, אַ זאַמלונג לידער, געשריבן פֿונעם בדחן משהלע שטאַם, בײַם סוף פֿונעם 19טן יאָרהונדערט פֿונעם גאַליצישן שטעטל גלינע. דער קלעזמער־פֿידלער בעריש קאַץ, שטאַמס אַ פּלימעניק, האָט דאָס ביכעלע איבערגעגעבן וואָלף יונין אין די 1940ער יאָרן.
משהלע שטאַם איז געווען אַ גוט־באַקאַנטער בדחן און איז אויפֿגעטראָטן אויף חתונות נישט נאָר אין גלינע, נאָר אויך אין די אַרומיקע שטעטלעך פֿון צענטראַל-גאַליציע. דאָס ביכעלע איז באמת אַן אוצר פֿאַר דער פֿאָרשונג פֿון דער ייִדישער פֿאָלקסליטעראַטור, אַ שאָד נאָר וואָס מע קען נישט די מעלאָדיעס צו די לידער.
Historic YIVO Radio Program on WEVD: A Joint Project with the Cloakmakers Union (1964)
This second episode, which originally aired on January 19, 1964, features host Sheftl Zak interviewing Reva Mark, daughter of scholar Yudl Mark, about her work collecting materials about American Jewish life in the early 20th century, a joint project between YIVO and the Joint Board of the Cloakmakers Union, and ...
Newly Published Books Based on Research at YIVO
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 2012 and 2013.
From the Pages of Yedies
by ROBERTA NEWMAN In August 1935, YIVO inaugurated a new art museum, during its international conference, when the YIVO building was full of scholars from around the world, as well as other visitors. As the December 1935 issue of Yedies reported, the ribbon was cut on a new gallery named in ...
The Jews in Poland and Russia: Interview with Antony Polonsky
On Tuesday, October 22, Antony Polonsky, the Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University will appear at YIVO to discuss his monumental three-volume The Jews in Poland and Russia (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization). He is interviewed here by Yedies Editor Roberta Newman. RN: Why did you see a need ...
Sex, Yiddish and the Law: Jewish Life in Metz in the 18th Century - Interview with Jay Berkovitz
On Monday, October 21, 2013, YIVO and the Center for Jewish History will host Sex, Yiddish and the Law: Jewish Life in Metz in the 18th Century, in conjunction with an exhibition, a conference and two other public programs celebrating the pinkas (register) of the bet din (rabbinic court) of the Jewish community of Metz, France, two leather-bound volumes preserved in the YIVO Archives. Brimming with details of commercial transactions involving Jews and non-Jews, family law, inheritance, modes of jurisprudence, and recourse to civil courts, the pinkas is a monument to an extraordinary community and its remarkable rabbinical court.
Visit the exhibition and symposium website and buy tickets to the events.
Professor Jay Berkovitz of the University of Massachusetts is the author of the upcoming book, Protocols of Justice: The Pinkas of the Metz Rabbinic Court 1771-1789 (Brill), a transcription and annotations of the 400,000-word document.
On September 9, he sat down with Yedies Editor Roberta Newman to talk about the pinkas. This interview is the second in a three-part series.
Sex, Yiddish and the Law: Jewish Life in Metz in the 18th Century - Interview with Jay Berkovitz
Jay Berkovitz talks about Yiddish and sex in the Pinkas of Metz.
From the Pages of Yedies
by ROBERTA NEWMAN In 1971, YIVO’s Annual Conference had, as its focus, the past hundred years of Jewish life in the United States. This was no strictly celebratory look at American Jewish history and culture, however. On the contrary, Yedies reported that many of the papers delivered at the conference commented ...