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From the Pages of Yedies
by ROBERTA NEWMAN The July 1935 edition of Yedies reports on a controversy involving Hebrew University and graduates of Yiddish secondary schools in Vilna. The university in Jerusalem was refusing to accept graduates from two of these schools, the Sofia M. Gurevitch Gymnasium and the Vilna Real-Gymnasium (Mathematics-Natural Sciences Gymnasium), for ...
From the Pages of Yedies
by ROBERTA NEWMAN This short item in the Winter 1970-71 edition of Yedies reported on a meeting of a group of YIVO Yiddish scholars with the Chief of the Terminology Section of the Department of Conference Services at the United Nations. Mordkhe Schaechter (1927-2007)was a distinguished Yiddish linguist and teacher. One of ...
A Bashert Genealogical Discovery
by RIVKA SCHILLER In the spring of this year, I began to research in earnest one of my ancestral towns in Poland. For those who may be familiar with it, the town’s name is Chmielnik, and it is situated approximately 30 kilometers (or 19 miles) southeast of the largest neighboring city ...
YIVO Library Intern: Netalie Matalon
YIVO library intern Netalie Matalon, July 2013. (Photo by Roberta Newman) YIVO’s newest library intern, Netalie Matalon, a former student of Hebrew and English literature, compares her work environment to “a unique Amish quilt-making place, with a lot of updated technology -- like Google, only --YIVOOGLE. Everything here is an art. Every ...
From the Pages of Yedies
This item about YIVO's acquisition of the papers of the noted Yiddish playwright H. Leivick appeared in the July 1960 issue of Yedies: News from YIVO. See description of the Papers of H. Leivick in the Guide to the YIVO Archives. Jewish writers on the occasion of a visit by Yiddish writer ...
From the Pages of Yedies
by ROBERTA NEWMAN
Ten years after relocating to New York, YIVO held its twenty-fourth annual conference, the program for which was publicized in advance in the February 1950 issue of Yedies. The wide range of topics focused on Jewish life in the U.S. and Israel, and included presentations on Yiddish dictionaries and the experiences of Jewish children during the war. Among the keynote speakers was Yiddish writer Joseph Opatoshu.
The next issue of Yedies reported on the conference and provided highlights from the program, noting that the Saturday night opening session at Hunter College attracted an audience of 2,500.
In Memoriam: Mikhl Herzog (1927-2013)
Mikhl Herzog, 1927-2013 The Board of Directors and Staff of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research mourn the passing of Professor Mikhl Herzog, founding dean of the Max Weinreich Center of Advanced Jewish Studies and a member of the YIVO Board of the Directors. Mikhl Herzog was Atran Professor Emeritus of ...
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 ...
From the Pages of Yedies
by ROBERTA NEWMAN The first News from YIVO appeared as a short article in the Yiddish literary journal, Literarishe bleter (Literary Pages) on October 9, 1925, shortly after YIVO was formally founded in Vilna (then Wilno, Poland; now Vilnius, Lithuania). The article reports on the meeting of the Bibliographical Commission, a group ...
The 2013 Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska Prize at YIVO Awarded to Prof. Barbara Engelking
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The Award Committee of the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Award has the pleasure to announce that Prof. Barbara Engelking of Warsaw, Poland was named the receipient of this year’s prize. Endowed by Prof. Jan Karski at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in 1992, the $5,000 prize goes to authors of published works documenting Polish-Jewish relations and Jewish contributions to Polish culture.
The winner was chosen by the Award Committee whose members are Prof. Jerzy Tomaszewski, Prof. Feliks Tych, Prof. Paweł Śpiewak (director, Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw), Dr. Jonathan Brent (Executive Director, YIVO Institute For Jewish Research). The award ceremony will be held in September at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.