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| Generation to Generation Honoring Memory and History at YIVO |
 By supporting YIVO's work you will help forge new links between generations, because YIVO is a place where you can learn about the world of your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. You can research their town or city, the languages they spoke, the songs they sang, the communal institutions they helped to build, their religious practices and food and holiday table rituals—in short, every aspect of how they lived.We can help you research your family history, find photographs of Jewish communities in Eastern Europe, trace the journeys of relatives to America and other immigrant destinations, explore political movements across Jewish Eastern and Central Europe, learn about Yiddish theater and music, study the Yiddish language, and celebrate the history of our Jewish community here and around the world. We want to ensure that our rich history, culture, and many accomplishments are never lost or diminished. By supporting YIVO you will become part of this daily work of preserving the memory of our ancestors. Keep the chain intact, me'dor le'dor, by joining YIVO today!   |
| Publications YIVO Chronicles and Reveals Our History in Unique Ways |
 From the two major publications of 2008, The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, and the new full English-language edition of Max Weinreich's classic History of the Yiddish Language, to the earlier Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland Before the Holocaust (Yale University Press, 2002) and My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants (NYU, 2006), YIVO is at the forefront in creating and publishing scholarly books based on materials held in the YIVO library and archives.The broad history of Jewish life in Eastern Europe is detailed in the two-volume YIVO Encyclopedia; the two books of autobiographical memoirs tell the stories of individuals and their immediate families. Because all history is personal, through these and other scholarly works YIVO covers it all. Your support makes this hard work—and other future projects—possible. For more information about YIVO's publications, click here. |
| Library and Archives Safeguarding Our Heritage |
For more than 80 years, YIVO has collected and preserved the primary records of daily life in Jewish Eastern Europe: the large and small things that comprise a culture and society, such as theater and political posters, family photographs, telephone directories from cities and towns, books in many languages (especially Yiddish), printed and recorded music, record books of Jewish organizations, family trees, folklore, and much more. YIVO safeguards the history of East European Jewry in its archives and library. At the same time we nourish new academic scholars and graduate students in their research. Through the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, fourteen fellowships are awarded each year and many of today's most renowned professors of Jewish studies, modern European history, comparative literature, linguistics, and other fields have been touched by YIVO's resources, professional staff, and research opportunities. This proud record follows the vision of Jewish historian and YIVO founder Simon Dubnow, who more than 100 years ago urged his community to take itself seriously, to save and study the documents, books, photographs, ephemera, and all other items that described what the Jewish community endured, built, and dreamed of doing. |
| Dubnow wrote, "I appeal to all educated readers . . . to the old and the young. . . . Come join the camp of the builders of history!" Please help continue the age-old Jewish traditions of scholarship, community activism, and reaching out to new generation of Jews everywhere. Jewish communities have always supported scholarship and education throughout our long history. It was the financial contributions and personal involvement of individuals like your that built and sustained the great libraries, schools, yeshivas, and other institutions of East European Jewry. Join YIVO today—safeguard our heritage and share our pride in all that can be accomplished. |