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Library & Archives
Founded in 1925 in Vilna, Poland (Wilno, Poland, now Vilnius, Lithuania), as the Yiddish Scientific Institute, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is dedicated to the history and culture of Ashkenazi Jewry and to its influence in the Americas. Headquartered in New York City since 1940, today YIVO is the world's preeminent resource center for East European Jewish Studies; Yiddish language, literature and folklore; and the American Jewish immigrant experience. The YIVO Library holds over 385,000 volumes in 12 major languages, and the Archives contains more than 24,000,000 pieces, including manuscripts, documents, photographs, sound recordings, art works, films, posters, sheet music, and other artifacts. YIVO also offers a series of cultural events and films, adult education and Yiddish language classes (including the pioneering Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture six-week intensive summer program begun in 1968), various scholarly publications, research opportunities and fellowships.
News & Information
| THE YIVO ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JEWS IN EASTERN EUROPE MAKES ITS DEBUT AS THE DEFINITIVE REFERENCE WORK ON JEWS IN EASTERN EUROPE NEW YORK, Mar. 2008 – For the first time, the centuries-long history and culture of East European Jewry is presented in a reference work representing seven years of research and collaborative scholarly effort. An unprecedented two-volume, 2,400-page resource makes its debut this month as “The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe,” published by Yale University Press. This work systematically represents the history and culture of Eastern European Jews from their first settlement in the region to the present day, reflecting on the ancestry of the vast majority of Jews in the world today. More... |
| NYANA Transfers Historic Records of 60 Years of Mass Immigration to the YIVO Arcives NEW YORK, Jan. 2008 – A vast collection of historical records, documenting the resettlement in New York of hundreds of thousands of refugees and immigrants over the past 60 years from Holocaust survivors to modern-day survivors of tyrannies around the world, will be transferred from the New York Association for New Americans (NYANA) to the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The transfer of nearly 1,000,000 NYANA immigration records covering the years 1949-2007 reaffirms the role of the YIVO Archives as the world's largest collection of materials related to the history and culture of East European Jewry and the American Jewish immigrant experience. More... |
| Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot Professor, Harvard University Honored at 2008 YIVO Annual Benefit Dinner The 83rd YIVO Annual Benefit Dinner, held on May 13, 2008, opened with a cocktail reception and tours of the new YIVO exhibition, "From Dream to Reality: Zionism and the Birth of Israel", which marks the 60th anniversary of the creation of the State of Israel. The award ceremony began after the reception, and Lawrence H. Summers, past president of Harvard University and former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, was honored with the YIVO Lifetime Achievement Award. The YIVO annual benefit is the chief fundraising event of the year, and the 2008 dinner has raised $1.2 million. More... |