We are pleased to announce the new Online Yedies fun YIVO (News from YIVO)! Check out yivo.org/blog for news about our projects and events, highlights from our collections, stories from our archivists and librarians about amazing finds, reports on Jewish life from correspondents in Warsaw and Berlin, and much, much more. We’re only just getting started and would love to hear your feedback. What would you like to learn more about? Let us know!
New articles as of June 28, 2013:
Introducing the Online Yedies fun YIVO
Yedies fun YIVO (News from YIVO) has a long history in print. With few interruptions, it has been published continually since 1925, from the very first days of the existence of the Jewish Scientific Institute, as YIVO was then known. Read more…
From the Pages of Yedies by Roberta Newman
The first News from YIVO appeared as a short article in the Yiddish literary journal, Literarishe bleter (Literary Pages) on October 9, 1925, shortly after YIVO was formally founded in Vilna (then Wilno, Poland; now Vilnius, Lithuania). Read more…
The 2013 Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska Prize at YIVO Awarded to Prof. Barbara Engelking
The Award Committee of the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Award has the pleasure to announce that Prof. Barbara Engelking of Warsaw, Poland was named the receipient of this year’s prize. Read more…
Tsvishn Veltn (Between Worlds): A Night of Cabaret by Tova Messer
This year’s Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture was kicked off on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 by a retro-chic evening of drinks, refreshments and entertainment celebrating avant-garde Yiddish-Russian culture. Read more…