This Week in Yedies: News from YIVO
Bel Kaufman, author and granddaughter of Sholem Aleichem,
dies at age 103
Bel Kaufman, the granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem and the author of the 1965 bestselling novel Up the Down Staircase, died in New York on July 25, 2014 at age 103. Read more…
YIVO in Vilna: Institution, Personalities, and Legacy
Call for Papers
An international conference dedicated to the 90th anniversary of YIVO’s establishment and the 75th anniversary of its transition to New York will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania on April 21-23, 2015. Read more…
Yiddish Adjectives/Encounters with Death in Yiddish
Folksongs (1965)
This broadcast from February 21, 1965 presents excerpts from two papers delivered at YIVO’s annual conference, which had taken place the month before: “Variety of Functions of the Yiddish Adjective” and “Traces of Amusements in Yiddish Folksongs.” Read more...
YIVO in the News/Staff Notes – July 2014
The Yiddish Daily Forward ran two features focusing on YIVO on July 17: A geshikhte fun YIVO [A History of YIVO], a review of Cecile Kuznitz’s book YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture by Gennady Estraikh, YIVO’s new Albert B. Ratner Visiting Scholar in East European Jewish Literature; and Khayem Grades arkhiv antplekt [Chaim Grade’s Archive Revealed], a report on YIVO’s public program “YIVO’s Newest Treasure: The Chaim Grade and Ina Hecker-Grade Archive” (July 13). Read more…