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Kalman Weiser, Silber Family Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, York University When WW II erupted, Max Weinreich was caught in western Europe. He was faced with a terrible choice: return home to YIVO’s heart in an uncertain Vilna or come to its periphery in far off New York City. His personal conflict mirrored the contest between YIVO’s European and American branches over where the institute's center should lie and, implicitly, that of secular Yiddish culture and Ashkenazic Jewry as a whole.
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