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August 7, 2013 marks the 88th anniversary of the establishment of YIVO. It was at this five-day conference in Berlin in 1925 that leading scholars from Western and Eastern Europe came together to craft a vision for what would become YIVO, the Yiddish Scientific Institute.

A few months later in October, supporters in Vilna (Wilno, Poland; now Vilnius, Lithuania) founded the Society of Friends of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, which became the main headquarters of YIVO. Concurrently in New York, an American branch of YIVO was established.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

by TOVA MESSER This year's Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture was kicked off on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 by a retro-chic evening of drinks, refreshments and entertainment celebrating avant-garde Yiddish-Russian culture. A lively cocktail hour in the Great Hall was followed by performances by Artists in ResidenceShane ...

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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.