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In this talk, David Slucki traces the development of Holocaust survivor organizations, through which survivors negotiated their understandings of who was a survivor, what was the Holocaust, and how it should be memorialized.

Find out more about how the YIVO Preservation Department works to safeguard all the materials in YIVO's collections from deteriorating over time.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, the world of East European Jewry was transformed by sweeping changes. Political thought has often been sparked by such change – and this was certainly true on the Jewish street. This course will focus on the ideas of Dubnow, Zhitlowsky, Pinsker, Ahad Ha’am, Syrkin, Borochov, Scherer, and Jabotinsky.

Eighty years have passed since the day beleaguered, starving, desperate, isolated, and doomed Jewish inmates in the hell of the Warsaw Ghetto chose to fight their German oppressors.

YIVO mourns the passing of Dr. Benjamin Nadel, who died last last week on December 11 at the age of 96. Dr. Nadel was a linguist and a scholar of Ancient Greek and Yiddish, who received his early education in the Yiddish secular schools in Vilna. He was accepted into ...

Profiles of four students in the 2013 Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture

This “From the YIVO Archives” program featured YIVO's Hersch Wasser collection (1939-1946), which consists of materials from the Warsaw ghetto organized by Emanuel Ringelblum as part of the underground Oyneg Shabes collection effort.

Course List · January 3 – March 2, 2017 Between the years 1850-1940, the Jewish world was engulfed in revolutions. From the Enlightenment to Industrialization, to political turmoil in the Russian Empire and the rise of Fascism in Europe, the way of life for Jews around the world underwent profound changes. ...

Course List · January 3 – 25, 2018 Throughout the centuries, Jews have encountered myriad forms of oppression. From conflicts dating back to the founding of the first Jewish polis in ancient times, to forms of contemporary antisemitism, Jews in every epoch have found creative means to resist their oppressors, devising ...

Author and historian David Slucki, in conversation with Eddy Portnoy, discusses his new book, which explores the Holocaust and its aftermath, absence and the scars that never heal, and fathers and sons and what it means to raise young men.