A Brief History of YIVO

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Join us for a brief, fast-paced history of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Richly illustrated with a variety of photos, documents, and books from YIVO's collections, Eddy Portnoy (YIVO’s Academic Advisor & Exhibitions Curator) offers a crash-course on YIVO's founding in 1925 in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), its relocation to New York, the survival of its materials during the Holocaust, and its continued work today.