Posted July 26, 2013:
Letters to Afar: Joint YIVO-Museum of the History of Polish Jews Exhibition Opens in Warsaw
On May 18, 2013, an audiovisual installation, Letters to Afar, opened at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The installation, designed by Péter Forgács, with music by the Klezmatics, was commissioned jointly by the museum and YIVO and is based on home movies from the YIVO Archives. Read more…
Yiddish Memoir About WWII Years in USSR Now Available in English Translation
In 1939, Yitzkhak Erlichson, a nineteen-year-old Jew, fled the German occupation of Wierzbnik, his hometown in Poland, for the Soviet Union, where he spent the next four years. His escape placed him out of the reach of the Nazis but did not spare him the ordeal of prison and labor camps. Read more…
YIVO Library Intern: Netalie Matalon
YIVO’s newest library intern, Netalie Matalon, a former student of Hebrew and English literature, compares her work environment to “a unique Amish quilt-making place, with a lot of updated technology – like Google, only -YIVOOGLE. Everything here is an art. Every small step is an art and I really love that.” Read more…
From the Pages of Yedies by Roberta Newman
Ten years after relocating to New York, YIVO held its twenty-fourth annual conference, the program for which was publicized in advance in the February 1950 issue of Yedies. The wide range of topics focused on Jewish life in the U.S. and Israel, and included presentations on Yiddish dictionaries and the experiences of Jewish children during the war. Read more…
Posted July 19, 2013:
IVO Archives – Recent Accessions: Letter to the Textile Yarn Agency, Brooklyn
Martin Smolin has donated a copy of a letter his father, Jacob Smolin, proprietor of the Textile Yarn Agency, in Brooklyn, received from Utah Woolen Mills in 1920. As an artifact, the letter not only attests to the large presence of Jews in the garment trade, but also to the still tenuous position of Jews in American society.
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