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by ROBERTA NEWMAN On February 17, 2015, about 60 dedicated YIVO members and others braved a cold and snowy evening to attend “Planning for the Jewish Future: Standards for Yiddish in the 20th and 21stCenturies,” a lecture by YIVO’s new Atran Visiting Professor of Yiddish Language and Linguistics, Rakhmiel Peltz (Drexel ...

On January 21, 2015, YIVO and the Museum of the City of New York presented “Behind the Lens: New York Jews Between the Wars,” a public program in conjunction with Letters to Afar (October 22, 2014-March 31, 2015), an immersive video art installation at the Museum first premiered by YIVO at POLIN - Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw in 2013.

The four scholars on the panel used rarely seen primary source materials to explore the back-story to Letters to Afar, which features home movies of Poland in the 1920s-1930s made, for the most part, by Jews from America on trips back to their home towns.

A scholar talks about the YIVO autobiographies as a research resource (1965).

Assemble the letterheads of Jewish organizations, institutions, and individuals in Europe, North and South America, and Palestine from the 1890s to the eve of World War II in 1939 and you have a portrait of the Jewish world: transnational; diverse in language, political, and religious orientation; and flourishing. Di gantse velt ...

YIVO’s Board of Directors and staff mourn the passing of Solomon (Shloyme) Krystal, who died on February 2, 2015, just shy of his 103rd birthday.

Shloyme’s long and extraordinary life spanned almost the entire 20th century and a piece of the 21st. Born in Warsaw before World War I, he was the oldest of 4 children. At the end of the 1930s, he worked at the Medem Sanatorium, an educational and health retreat for children and adults at risk for tuberculosis. He survived World War II in the Soviet Union and went to Sweden in 1946, after a short time in Poland.

After he immigrated to the United States in 1952, Shloyme worked in the New York Cloak Joint Board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. He and his sister, Hannah Fryshdorf, became involved with YIVO: Hannah as its long-time assistant director and Shloime, around 1980, as a volunteer in the YIVO Archives and a member of YIVO’s Board of Directors.

This episode of YIVO’s radio program on WEVD, originally broadcast on October 3, 1965, is devoted to an interview with Dr. Jacob Robinson about his book, And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight; The Eichmann Trial, the Jewish Catastrophe, a rebuttal to Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on ...

Assemble the letterheads of Jewish organizations, institutions, and individuals in Europe, North and South America, and Palestine from the 1890s to the eve of World War II in 1939 and you have a portrait of the Jewish world: transnational; diverse in language, political, and religious orientation; and flourishing. Di gantse velt ...

Letters to Afar

YIVO’s and Polin’s video installation at the Museum of the City of New York, Letters to Afar, continues to draw in visitors and has been extended another week until March 31, 2015. An article in the New York Post reported on a visitor’s emotional encounter with one particular film in the exhibition, “Professor finds long-lost home movies playing at NYC museum.” The article was also translated into Dutch.

The installation will open at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco on February 26.

Assemble the letterheads of Jewish organizations, institutions, and individuals in Europe, North and South America, and Palestine from the 1890s to the eve of World War II in 1939 and you have a portrait of the Jewish world: transnational; diverse in language, political, and religious orientation; and flourishing. Di gantse velt ...

Rosaline Schwartz, YIVO, 1992. (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, RG 100.) YIVO mourns the passing of Rosaline B. Schwartz (1925-2015) on January 10. Roz was YIVO’s Director of Public Programs from 1981-1996, presiding over YIVO’s cultural and fundraising events for over a decade. She was also a native-speaker of Yiddish and a ...