YIVO Press Releases

(NEW YORK, November 3, 2011) – Sunday, November 20 at the Riverdale Temple inaugurates the first of a four-part lecture series that will launch the new Jewish Culture Series (YIVO Yidishe kultur-serye). This Jewish Culture Series is the first community outreach program for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research as ...

(NEW YORK, March 10, 2011) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is proud to announce a major gift to be received from Leon Wagner and Harry Wagner to create a gallery to honor the memory of their parents, as well as the lost Jewish community of Vilna where their ...

(NEW YORK, October 13, 2010)– On the 150th anniversary of the birth of the renowned historian Simon Dubnow, YIVO will conduct a day-long conference on Dubnow's life and career featuring leading academics and historians. Many colleges and universities today offer courses in Jewish history and have professors whose research focuses on ...

(NEW YORK, October 5, 2010)– The YIVO Institute announced today the launching of a new website, "The Milstein Online Archives of the New York Jewish Community," which can be accessed by clicking here or at its official address www.milsteinjewisharchives.yivo.org. The site, sponsored by the Paul and Irma Milstein Foundation, reflects ...

Enhancement of Critically Acclaimed Work Adds Selections from YIVO’S Vast Archive of Images and Media (NEW YORK, June 10, 2010)– What is the history of the shtetl? How far was Minsk from Pinsk? Who wrote the first Yiddish novel? What did the Misnagdim believe? Why were so many Polish Jews tavern ...

(NEW YORK, May 2010) – On May 26, 2010, Martin Flumenbaum officially joined the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Board of Directors. A senior partner at the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in the Litigation Department (which he chaired from 1999 to 2005), and a member ...

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 ...

(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 ...

(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 ...

(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 ...