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As part of his recent trip to the United States, Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas of Lithuania visited YIVO on June 30, 2008. He was given a tour of YIVO’s Rare Book Room and Archives, followed by a discussion that touched on YIVO-owned Hebrew- and Yiddish-language books, rediscovered in 1989, that ...

Matching Fund Effort Underway: Cahnman Foundation Pledges $25,000 (NEW YORK, September 2008)– The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has announced that it has received a three-year, $300,000 challenge grant from the Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust to create an online edition of The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in ...

Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies Awarded to Gabriella Safran and Steven J. Zipperstein; Chana Mlotek and Mark Slobin Receive Honorable Mention (NEW YORK, December 2, 2008) – The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its fourth Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in ...

(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 ...

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, 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 ...

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, 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, January 16, 2013) – The YIVO Institute is delighted to announce the launching of its new website, the Online Guide to the YIVO Archives at yivoarchives.org. Created by the YIVO project team with the generous support of the Kronhill Pletka Foundation, the new site expands and upgrades the original ...

(NEW YORK, April 9, 2013) – The YIVO Jewish Culture Series, a partnership with the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research and Riverdale Temple, will feature a special program on Sunday, April 14 at 2pm at the Riverdale Temple located at 4545 Independence Ave. (at 246th Street). This event will celebrate ...