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Coverage of the Vilna Project

YIVO’s press conference in Vilnius about the launch of its fundraising campaign for the YIVO Vilna Project was covered by numerous Lithuanian news outlets and other worldwide media, including:

Der Standard
Delfi (English-language)
LRT Fonoteka Radio
Lrytas
ELTA
Kauno diena
Alfa
Vilniaus Diena

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania featured a report on the press conference on their English-language website.

The project was written up in the New York Times, The Jewish Week, and the Forward. The New York Times article was picked up by numerous websites, including Haaretz.

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 ...

YIVO's seven-year project to digitize prewar Vilna collections

The project continues to garner media attention with a piece in JSTOR Daily, "YIVO Vilna Project Will Digitize Jewish History," that also discusses in detail YIVO’s 1942 autobiographical essay contest. “Why I Left Europe and What I Have Accomplished in America.”

The project was also noted in a Jerusalem Post article, “On My Mind: Heritage Protection.” (YIVO is also mentioned in another article there, a piece by the son of Seymour Pomrenze, a Monuments Man who was instrumental in helping YIVO recover its looted archives at the end of World War II.)

Letters to Afar

The YIVO/Museum of the City of New York installation, Letters to Afar, received prominent attention in the media, beginning with a story in The New York Times on October 22. There were also thoughtful pieces in The Daily Beast and two articles in the  The Jewish Week, "Letters from Afar Close Up” and a piece by George Robinson. The exhibition is also the subject of a feature in Jewniverse.

In Fall 2013, Professor Jay Berkovitz of the University of Massachusetts presented a series of programs at YIVO and the Center for Jewish History about the Pinkas (register) of Metz, two leather-bound volumes preserved in the YIVO Archives.

His book on the topic has now been published by Brill Academic Publishers. Presented here to the public for the first time in print, the Pinkas of the Metz Beit Din is the official register of civil cases that came before the Metz rabbinic court in the two decades prior to the French Revolution. Brimming with details of commercial transactions, inheritance disputes, women’s roles in economic life, and the interplay between French law and Jewish law, the Metz Pinkas offers remarkable evidence of the engagement of Jews with the surrounding society and culture. The two volumes of Protocols of Justice comprise the complete text of the Metz Pinkas Beit Din, which is fully annotated by the author, and a thorough analysis of its significance for history and law at the threshold of modernity.

This episode, originally broadcast on April 4, 1965, presents excerpts from a speech delivered by Dr. Max Weinreich at a staff luncheon on the occasion of YIVO’s 40th anniversary. The talk covers the founding of YIVO, influential individuals in its history, and sources of funding in the earliest days of ...

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.

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 ...