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 ‘The teacher of teachers’: A pioneering Yiddishist leaves a profound legacy
Chava Lapin vigorously promoted Yiddish language and culture for half a century
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Yiddish World Yiddish linguist Dovid Braun is appointed YIVO’s Academic Advisor in Yiddish
Braun has instituted more intensive Yiddish language courses in the fall and spring semesters
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Theater What Ben Platt learned reading Leo Frank’s letters
Paying a visit to YIVO, the ‘Parade’ star comes face to face with history
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Culture YIVO to digitize millions of documents from Jewish Labor Bund
The effort will make countless artifacts available for the first time
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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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Yiddish World 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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Culture In YIVO’s first digital exhibition, the story of Vilna’s Jews — through the eyes of one girl
“People say I was a naughty child,” 11-year-old Beba Epstein wrote in 1933. She bumped into her parents’ china cabinet, shattering plates. She tore up her cousin Freydke’s best-in-class geography paper. On summer vacation in a resort town, she would run in the streets, and was once nearly hit by a car. We know the…
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Yiddish World Amid coronavirus pandemic, YIVO completes its largest-ever Yiddish summer program
Read this article in Yiddish here. Last year, to get to his classes at the YIVO summer program in Yiddish language and culture, Dan Shore took the 6 train from the 92nd Street Y’s student dorm on the Upper East Side to the Center for Jewish History’s building on 16th street. This year, his commute…
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