Congratulations to Eileen Millan, the winner of our Winter/Spring 2014 Public Programs Survey lottery! Ms. Millan has won a tour of a YIVO archival collection of her choice.
Thank you to everyone who completed the survey.
We look forward to offering this opportunity again in the future.
This Week in Yedies: News from YIVO
Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture: Alumni Voices
This is the third post in a series about alumni of YIVO’s intensive summer program in Yiddish, offered by YIVO and Bard College: “Doing Homework in the Hungarian Pastry Shop: Alicia Svigals, Zumer Program alum, 1980s.” Read more…
Resonances from Vilna: The Lost Heritage of Jewish Music
On May 22, 2014, four cultural organizations in Vilnius teamed up to present “Resonances from Vilna,” a concert at the Tolerance Center of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, featuring works by Jewish composers Joseph Achron, Alexander Krein, and other Jewish Lithuanian composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Read more…
From the Pages of Yedies
In September 1953, Yedies celebrated the 15th anniversary of the YIVO Library and Archives in America with a detailed account of its history, beginning with the establishment of its predecessor, the Central Jewish Library and Archives. Read more…
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