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YIVO Receives Largest Single Gift in Its History
Bequest of Mickey Ross Yields $4.5 Million (NEW YORK, January 7, 2010) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce that it has received a gift of approximately $4.5 million from the estate of Michael (Mickey) Ross, an award-winning television writer who was first generation son of Jewish ...
YIVO to hold Milstein Conference on “New York and the American Jewish Experience”
(NEW YORK, October 2009)– The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research announced an all-day public conference on New York and the American Jewish Experience, funded by the Milstein Family Foundation and the Howard and Abby Milstein Foundation, to be held on Monday, November 2. The conference, which marks the culmination of ...
YIVO Names Jonathan Brent Executive Director and CEO
(NEW YORK, May 21, 2009) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has appointed Jonathan Brent, 59, to be its executive director and CEO effective July 1. Brent succeeds Carl J. Rheins, who has resigned for health reasons. In ten years as executive director, Rheins helped renew YIVO’s position as ...
YIVO to Honor Alan M. Dershowitz and Matthew Goldstein at 84th Annual Benefit Dinner
(NEW YORK, May 11, 2009) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is proud to announce it will honor Alan M. Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard University Law School, and Matthew Goldstein, Chancellor of the City University of New York, on May 26, 2009. Bruce Slovin, Chair of ...
8th Annual YIVO Heritage Luncheon to Honor Saul Kagan, Drs. Emilia and Alexander Sedlis, and Eta Wrobel
(NEW YORK, April 2015) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will honor Saul Kagan (Lifetime Achievement Award), Drs. Emilia and Alexander Sedlis (Vilna Award) and Eta Wrobel, in memoriam (Special YIVO Recognition Award), at its 8th Annual Heritage Luncheon on May 6, 2009, at the Center for Jewish History. ...
Exhibition on the Hebrew Actors' Union and the Yiddish Stage Funded by Eli Broad Opens at the YIVO Institute
(NEW YORK, March 1, 2009)– The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is proud to announce the opening of its new exhibition Stars, Strikes, and the Yiddish Stage: The Story of the Hebrew Actors’ Union, 1899–2005 on March 12, at the Center for Jewish History. A major gift from Eli Broad, ...
YIVO Encyclopedia Receives Awards
(NEW YORK, March 2009) – The Association of Jewish Libraries has named The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe best reference work of 2008 in the Judaica Reference and Bibliography awards bestowed by its Research Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections Division. In addition, the encyclopedia has received Honorable Mention ...
YIVO to Host Panel Discussion on Madoff Affair
(NEW YORK, January 8, 2009) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will present a panel discussion titled "Madoff: A Jewish Reckoning" on Thursday, January 15, at 7:00 pm. The sheer magnitude of Bernard Madoff's crimes and his apparent preference for fleecing Jews and Jewish institutions have left many of ...