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What's New 2003/2004
What's New 2002
What's New 2001
What's New 2000
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Charles J. Rose Joins YIVO Board Charles J. Rose is General Partner of Bentley Capital Management, Inc.,an investment management firm based in New York City. Mr. Rose is an equity analyst/portfolio manager specializing in companies undergoing positive rates of change of returns on capital, reflecting revenue, cost and/or capitalization metrics. He began his career at Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., where he was one of the top-rated chemical industry analysts and was consistently ranked as an Institutional Investor All-American. From 1992-1996, he was a partner at Omega Advisor, a large hedge fund, and prior to 1998, an institutional portfolio manager at Lynch & Mayer, Inc. Mr. Rose has a Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering from Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University. He also holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. A member of New York City's Sutton Place Synagogue, Mr. Rose is also active in the Wall Street Division of UJA-Federation and the B'nai Brith Anti-Defamation League. He is a member of The Board of Jewish Education and the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater. A graduate of the Workmen's Circle/Arbeterring Shule, he speaks Yiddish fluently. He lives in New York City and is the proud father of three children.
New YIVO/CJH Genealogy Institute Preservation Workshop for Family Historians
Funds Established to Honor Dina Abramowicz
YIVO Book Featured at Frankfurt International Book Fair
Click here for an online review of Poyln: Jewish Life in the Old Country from the English-language edition of the Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung.
75th Anniversary Public Programs—
New Reading Room Hours
Library Receives $200,000 Waber Fund Grant
Tanya Corbin and Irwin Jacobs, two of the trustees of The Waber Fund, are direct descendants of Mathias Strashun (1819-1885) one of Lithuania’s most prominent intellectuals and Talmudic scholars. Ms. Corbin and Mr. Jacobs have chosen to fund the preservation of the Strashun Collection, which originated as Mathias Strashun’s personal library, to honor their famous ancestor and to share the valuable books with the broader Jewish community.
The 40,000 item Strashun Collection contains 25,000 volumes of Hebrew rabbinics, 1,000 volumes of Yiddish rabbinics, 8,000 volumes of secular Hebrew books and 5,000 volumes of secular Yiddish material. A recent survey showed that about 15,000 books of the Strashun Collection at YIVO are unavailable at any other library.
Annual Benefit Dinner Raises $1.5 Million
Stuart E. Eizenstat, Deputy Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, is the second-highest ranking official at the Treasury Department. He was key, in his role as Special Envoy, to recovering YIVO's lost archives from Lithuania. In 1999, he received the Distinguished Service Award from Secretary of State Madeline Albright for his work as Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs. More recently, he has represented the United States in negotiations to secure compensation for Jewish slave laborers in Germany during World War II.
Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick together wrote five Broadway show scores. As a team they created the score for Fiddler on the Roof, an enduring worldwide hit, and the award-winning Fiorello, as well as the scores for Tenderloin, She Loves Me, and The Rothschilds. Mr. Bock and Mr. Harnick individually helped create many musical "standards" including "Too Close for Comfort" and "The Way We Were." They are members of The Dramatists' Guild and the Songwriters' Guild of America. In 1990, Mr. Bock and Mr. Harnick were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.
Summer 2000 Lecture Series
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