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YIVO's 89th Annual Benefit, which honored Faina Kukliansky, the Hon. Anne E. Derse, and Dr. Yitzhak Arad, has received attention in Lithuana, including the websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuaniaand the Jewish Community of Lithuania. The Letters to Afarexhibition at the Museum of the City ...

A panel on the history of YIVO was one of the opening sessions at the 46th annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies in Baltimore on December 14. Organized by Sarah Zarrow of New York University, it was entitled "YIVO and Jewish Social Science: The Standardization of Practice and ...

From January 5-January 23, Beverly Bailis will teach “Modernism, Gender, and War in Early 20th Century Hebrew” in the YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization.

She currently teaches Hebrew and Hebrew literature at Brooklyn College. She received her BA in Literature from Bard College, her M.A. in Jewish Civilization from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her Ph.D. in Hebrew Literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary. In addition to specializing in Modern Hebrew Literature, Bailis’s research interests include Modern Jewish Literature, Gender Studies, and Modernism. Recently she completed her dissertation, “Fantasies of Modernity: Representations of the Jewish Female Body in Turn-of-the-Century Hebrew Fiction.” She has taught courses at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, the JCC in Manhattan, Town and Village Synagogue, and other adult education programs in New York City.

She is interviewed here by Leah Falk.

Every month, the YIVO Library receives complimentary copies of books whose content has been drawn in part from research done by the authors in the YIVO Archives and Library. Below is a partial list of books published in 2013-2014. Berkovitz, Jay R. Protocols of Justice, the Pinkas of the Metz Rabbinic ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On April 11, 1965, YIVO Chief Archivist and historian Ezekiel Lifschutz visits the studio to talk with host Sheftl Zak about YIVO’s photographic archive, which documents Yiddish culture and life in Eastern Europe, and whose oldest images date from the 1860s. From 1963-1976, YIVO had its own program on WEVD, the ...

David Fishman talks about 3 artifacts rescued from looting by the Nazis.