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Strashun Library Added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Registry

6/13/2017

Collection of rare Hebrew books internationally recognized as part of the documentary heritage of the world.

Tales About Air: Popular Science for Yiddish Readers

6/9/2017

A late 19th-century work on the properties of air, air pressure, and wind, published during a time when there was an increased appetite and audience for Yiddish books on secular subjects.

Shmuel Lapin on YIVO (1968)

5/19/2017

A glimpse of YIVO almost 50 years ago.

Which Way for Traditional Jewish Learning in America? (1968)

5/5/2017

A 1968 conference paper contemplates the future of advanced yeshiva studies in America.

A Seamstress Wants to Learn Esperanto

5/1/2017

An application to a course in Vilna hints at the appeal that universalism held for some young Polish Jews.

Sounds of Industry and Jammed Transmissions: Spotlight on Composer Annie Gosfield

4/26/2017

Annie Gosfield is a Jewish American composer who grew up in Philadelphia, born to parents who had both been born in New York City.

Historian Isaiah Trunk on Holocaust Research (1968)

4/20/2017

And remarks about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

Wild Animals I Have Known

4/13/2017

A Yiddish Translation of an American Classic

Translated and Improved

4/5/2017

In the vision of the participants of Yiddish theater of interwar period, translation created cultural bridges through which creativity traveled in both directions.

2017-2018 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows

3/20/2017

List of recipients of YIVO’s 2017-2018 faculty and graduate student fellowships.