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Babylonia Talmud - Tractate Baba Kamma. Commissioned by Amschel Moses Rothschild and handed down in the Rothschild family for five generations. Frankfurt, 1721-22. (YIVO Archives) The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research was founded in Vilna, Poland, in 1925 and relocated to New York City in 1940. Our mission is to preserve, study and teach the cultural history of Jewish life throughout Eastern Europe, Germany and Russia. Our educational and public outreach programs concentrate on all aspects of this 1000-year history and its continuing influence in America. YIVO’s archival collections and library constitute the single greatest resource for such study in the world, including approximately 24 million letters, manuscripts, photographs, films, sound recordings, art works, and artifacts; as well as the largest collection of Yiddish-language materials in the world.  |
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News & InformationRead about YIVO, "the authority on all things Yiddish," in this article about the winner of the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee (by Joseph Berger, May 31, 2013, New York Times). Three special Yiddish Summer Program afternoon and evening courses are open to the public. Click here for more information. Space is limited - register today! The YIVO Institute and the Museum of the History of Polish Jews commission a multimedia installation from Péter Forgács and The Klezmatics. Read more...  Visit www.revilna.org. Thursday, June 13: From the 1880s, the wave of immigration that brought East European Jews to New York also brought substantial numbers to the East End of London. Read more... Sunday, June 16: When describing Minsk in 1928, the Yiddish writer and journalist I. J. Singer wrote, "Everyone agrees that Minsk is a happy, lively city..." Read more... Thursday, June 20: A musical tour of Yiddish popular song from the immigrant East End 1880-1940 - surprising, moving, funny and cheeky. Read more... Sunday, June 23: Join us in celebrating the new Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, the largest and most complete of its kind to date, published by Indiana University Press. Read more... Sunday, June 30: With guest speaker Sam Kassow (Trinity College) and singer Anthony Mordechai-Tsvi Russell. Read more... The Last Books by Jonathan Brent, published May 1, 2013, Jewish Ideas Daily. Read the article here. Donate Now to the Last Books campaign. Floating Worlds and Future Cities: The Genius of Lazar Khidekel, Suprematism, and the Russian Avant-Garde. Read the press release here. Pledge support now to preserve and digitize Chaim Grade's personal papers and archive. Click here. Read the press release here. Read the New York Times ArtsBeat Blog article here. Read the press release here. |
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Some Say the Spelling of a Winning Word Just Wasn’t Kosher
Uriel Weinreich Summer Program Courses Open to the Public
Letters to Afar at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Rise Up! Revolution or Class Mobility: Anglo-Yiddish Poems and Songs as Agents of Political Debate 1884-1914
Read Jonathan Brent's Article The Last Books
Floating Worlds and Future Cities Exhibition Now On View
Join Our Chaim Grade Fundraising Campaign
The YIVO Institute and the Museum of the History of Polish Jews Announce Landmark Partnership Agreement