Click Here to Read: YIVO entry in the YIVO Encylopedia of Eastern European Jews by Cecile Kuznitz on the YIVO Encylopedia of Eastern European Jews website.
The dais and part of the audience at the first YIVO Conference, Vilna, 1929. Among the scholars and communal leaders on the stage are (seated, center) Tsemaḥ Szabad, (second to Szabad’s right) Max Weinreich, (second to Szabad’s left) Perets Hirshbeyn, (standing, third from right) Zelig Kalmanovitsh, and (seated, second from right) Eliyahu Tsherikover. (YIVO)