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Intensive is the right name for it
Profiles of four students in the 2013 Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture
From the Pages of Yedies
by ROBERTA NEWMAN The July 1935 edition of Yedies reports on a controversy involving Hebrew University and graduates of Yiddish secondary schools in Vilna. The university in Jerusalem was refusing to accept graduates from two of these schools, the Sofia M. Gurevitch Gymnasium and the Vilna Real-Gymnasium (Mathematics-Natural Sciences Gymnasium), for ...
Return of the Jew: Interview with Katka Reszke
On June 24, 2013, in a program co-presented in partnership with the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Katka Reszke appeared at YIVO to launch her new book, Return of the Jew: Identity Narratives of the Third Post-Holocaust Generation of Jews in Poland, with Dr. Sheila Skaff serving as ...
YIVO's 88th Birthday
August 7, 2013 marks the 88th anniversary of the establishment of YIVO. It was at this five-day conference in Berlin in 1925 that leading scholars from Western and Eastern Europe came together to craft a vision for what would become YIVO, the Yiddish Scientific Institute.
A few months later in October, supporters in Vilna (Wilno, Poland; now Vilnius, Lithuania) founded the Society of Friends of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, which became the main headquarters of YIVO. Concurrently in New York, an American branch of YIVO was established.
From the Pages of Yedies
by ROBERTA NEWMAN This short item in the Winter 1970-71 edition of Yedies reported on a meeting of a group of YIVO Yiddish scholars with the Chief of the Terminology Section of the Department of Conference Services at the United Nations. Mordkhe Schaechter (1927-2007)was a distinguished Yiddish linguist and teacher. One of ...
A Bashert Genealogical Discovery
by RIVKA SCHILLER In the spring of this year, I began to research in earnest one of my ancestral towns in Poland. For those who may be familiar with it, the town’s name is Chmielnik, and it is situated approximately 30 kilometers (or 19 miles) southeast of the largest neighboring city ...
Digital Resource Profile: Guide to the YIVO Archives
In January 2013, YIVO launched the Guide to the YIVO Archives at www.yivoarchives.org. The web site, created with funding from the Kronhill Pletka Foundation, presents descriptions of over 1,800 YIVO Archives collections in a searchable, online format. Collections are indexed by subject term and country and there are detailed finding aids ...
YIVO Archives – Recent Accessions: Maros Ludas Appeal
In memory of Herbert Offen, the Offen family has donated a rare Hungarian-Hebrew document to the YIVO Archives. The Jewish community of Maros Ludas, located in Transylvania near the Maros River, had only 53 Jewish families. They could not afford to build their own synagogue and had been praying in ...
From the Pages of Yedies
This item about YIVO's acquisition of the papers of the noted Yiddish playwright H. Leivick appeared in the July 1960 issue of Yedies: News from YIVO. See description of the Papers of H. Leivick in the Guide to the YIVO Archives. Jewish writers on the occasion of a visit by Yiddish writer ...
Letters to Afar: Joint YIVO-Museum of the History of Polish Jews Exhibition Opens in Warsaw
On May 18, 2013, an audiovisual installation, Letters to Afar, opened at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The installation, designed by Péter Forgács, with music by the Klezmatics, was commissioned jointly by the museum and YIVO and is based on home movies from the YIVO ...