| 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... |