Introducing the Online Yedies fun YIVO

Yedies fun YIVO (News from YIVO) has a long history in print. With few interruptions, it has been published continually since 1925, from the very first days of the existence of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, as YIVO was then known. It began life as an article in Literarishe bleter (Literary Pages), Poland’s leading Yiddish literary journal and then for several months as a supplement to it. At other times it was published as a stand-alone newsletter or as a section in other YIVO publications. Year in and year out, the Yedies chronicled YIVO’s activities.

This blog marks a new chapter for the Yedies: its transition from a print to an online publication. The new Yedies will offer everything that the old Yedies delivered, but also a whole lot more. Check here on a weekly basis for new features, including:

• News about our projects, programs, events, classes, and scholarships
• Reports on new and noteworthy acquisitions by our library and archives
• Articles highlighting interesting artifacts from our collections
• Stories about fascinating discoveries made by our archivists and librarians, and scholars in the course of their work
• Interviews with performers and lecturers who appear in our public programs
• Links to videos of our programs
• Profiles of students in our intensive Yiddish-language summer program
• Reports on Jewish life from Warsaw and Berlin