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Jonathan Brent, the Executive Director and CEO of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, was conferred the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania by H.E. Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania.

The President of the Republic of Lithuania H.E. Ms Dalia Grybauskaitė visited the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York.

YIVO is thrilled to announce a $3 million gift from Bruce Slovin to name the YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum. This gift was given in honor and in loving memory of Mr. Slovin’s wife, Francesca.

Senator Dick Durbin is receiving YIVO’s Founders Award for his role in preserving the nearly-destroyed legacy of the rich and vibrant Jewish culture in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Rare and unpublished works represent the collective memory and cultural history of Eastern European and Russian Jews.

The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania has awarded 30,000 Euros for work in Lithuania for the Vilna Collections Project.

Reviving a partnership dating back to just after WWII, Yad Vashem becomes an institutional partner on the YIVO Vilna Collections project.

The National Endowment for the Humanities’s Division of Preservation and Access has awarded $260,000 for the YIVO Vilna Collections project.

Alyssa Quint Named YIVO’s First Vilna Collections Scholar Alyssa Quint, YIVO’s First Vilna Collections Scholar. New York, New York - The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce a three-year, $75,000 grant for a new scholar-in-residence. The Vilna Collections Scholar will contextualize the archival and library materials in YIVO’s Vilna ...

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research receives a generous anonymous challenge grant of $1,160,000. The challenge grant, the single largest gift in YIVO’s 90 year history, will provide funds over the next 5 years to support the creation of The YIVO Vilna Collections project. The anonymous donor will match all contributions, 1:2, up to $1,160,000.