This is the Forward’s coverage of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, an organization which studies Eastern European Jewish life and serves as a secular authority on the Yiddish language.
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Culture Could this be the most meaningful Holocaust memorial in New York?
In Riverside Park, a stone meant to be a placeholder for a grander memorial has become an unlikely gathering place for Bundist Holocaust survivors and their descendants
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Yiddish World Why do so many Yiddish words in English have a German spelling?
The small but important differences in how we spell Yiddish words today
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Film & TV An online comedy course asks Marc Maron, Lewis Black and more — why did Jews get into the funny business?
YIVO’s ‘Is Anything Okay?’ dives into Jewish American comedy history
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Opinion YIVO is my intellectual home. Its webinars on Hamas are misguided
After supporting YIVO for decades, it's disheartening to see the institution turn away from the Yiddishist values that shaped it
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Culture A Yiddish institution will discuss Hamas — many in the Yiddish world say they’re promoting propaganda
The YIVO webinar ‘The Origins and Ideology of Hamas’ exposed a rift in the Yiddish world. Its CEO says critics have too narrow an idea of their mission
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Fast Forward Gershon Hundert, renowned scholar of Polish Jewry, dies at 77
The McGill University professor was the editor in chief of the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
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Fast Forward In New York, Lithuania’s president honors those who saved Jewish artifacts during and after the Holocaust
At the heart of YIVO’s collection of 25 million items are books and documents saved in the Vilna Ghetto
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Yiddish World Smithsonian festival to include Yiddish concert, blintzes and pickling workshops
The annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival celebrates contemporary cultural traditions from around the world.
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