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At the heart of YIVO’s collection of 25 million items are books and documents saved in the Vilna Ghetto
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Culture Yiddish porn, Einstein’s letters and Rabbi Schneerson’s sermons united in ‘largest single remnant of Jewish life’ in Europe
In 2014, Jonathan Brent discovered something he didn’t know he was missing. Walking into the Wroblewski Library in Vilnius, he saw a long table covered with boxes. Inside were documents belonging to the organization he heads, YIVO, the Institute for Jewish research, which was founded in Vilna and moved its operations to New York in…
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Forverts in English Online tour: Pre-war Jewish Vilna as seen through eyes of a teen girl
On Wednesday, December 8, at 1 pm ET, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will lead a Zoom tour of its exhibit depicting pre-war Vilna as seen through the eyes of a Jewish teenage girl. The exhibit, called “Beba Epstein: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl”, is based on an autobiography that Beba Epstein,…
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