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YIVO Participates in JudaicaLink Encyclopedia Project

The first release of The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe in Linked Open Data (LOD) format is now available at http://data.judaicalink.org/data/yivo/YIVO. The goal of the project is to enrich online reference works and digital humanities in Jewish studies by creating a framework for new links between different encyclopedias and other Jewish content on the Internet. Read more…
 
Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture: Alumni Voices
This is the first of series about alumni of YIVO’s intensive summer program in Yiddish, offered by YIVO and Bard College. The program, which was established in 1967, is in its 47th year. This year’s session runs from June 23 – August 1, 2014.  Read more… 
 
YIVO Public Program Video and Audio Archive
Visit yivo.org/video to view or listen to many of YIVO’s public programs from 2005 to the present. Some of our most recent additions include: June 2, 2014 – Rethinking Jabotinsky. Read more… 
 
Newly Published Books Based on Research at YIVO
Every month, the YIVO Library receives complimentary copies of books whose content has been drawn in part from research done by the authors in the YIVO Archives and Library. Below is a partial list of books recently received. Read more…