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Di gantse velt af a firmeblank: The World of Jewish Letterheads
Assemble the letterheads of Jewish organizations, institutions, and individuals in Europe, North and South America, and Palestine from the 1890s to the eve of World War II in 1939 and you have a portrait of the Jewish world: transnational; diverse in language, political, and religious orientation; and flourishing. Di gantse velt ...
YIVO in the News/Staff Notes - October 2014
YIVO's seven-year project to digitize prewar Vilna collections
The project continues to garner media attention with a piece in JSTOR Daily, "YIVO Vilna Project Will Digitize Jewish History," that also discusses in detail YIVO’s 1942 autobiographical essay contest. “Why I Left Europe and What I Have Accomplished in America.”
The project was also noted in a Jerusalem Post article, “On My Mind: Heritage Protection.” (YIVO is also mentioned in another article there, a piece by the son of Seymour Pomrenze, a Monuments Man who was instrumental in helping YIVO recover its looted archives at the end of World War II.)
Letters to Afar
The YIVO/Museum of the City of New York installation, Letters to Afar, received prominent attention in the media, beginning with a story in The New York Times on October 22. There were also thoughtful pieces in The Daily Beast and two articles in the The Jewish Week, "Letters from Afar Close Up” and a piece by George Robinson. The exhibition is also the subject of a feature in Jewniverse.
Letters to Afar Exhibition Opens
On October 21, 2014, Letters to Afar, an exhibition commissioned by the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in 2013, opened at the Museum of the City of New York. This unique multimedia installation by award-winning artistsPéter Forgács and The ...
Di gantse velt af a firmeblank: The World of Jewish Letterheads
Assemble the letterheads of Jewish organizations, institutions, and individuals in Europe, North and South America, and Palestine from the 1890s to the eve of World War II in 1939 and you have a portrait of the Jewish world: transnational; diverse in language, political, and religious orientation; and flourishing. Di gantse velt ...
The Yiddish Culture Atlas (1965)
In this episode, originally broadcast on March 28, 1965, host Sheftl Zak sits down for a conversation with Dr. Mikhl Herzog, a student of Dr. Uriel Weinreich, about the Yiddish Culture Atlas project. They discuss the ways that the Atlas does more than document different Yiddishdialects. The project also maps ...
The YIVO Vilna Project – An Update
Newly discovered documents in the Lithuanian Central State Archive from YIVO’s prewar collection, now in the process of being sorted andconserved. Their damaged appearance is testament to the circumstances in which they were rescued and hidden. Photo by Roberta Newman. The press conference held by YIVO Executive Director Jonathan Brent and Director of Development Suzanne Leon in ...
For Jenny Romaine, D.I.Y. Stands for Do It In Yiddish
The performer, puppeteer, and former sound archivist turns YIVO upside-down. By LEAH FALK Jenny Romaine has been spending a lot of time at YIVO lately. This summer, she co-led, with Shane Baker, the theater workshop for the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, introducing students to troll costumes, ...
People Ask YIVO…. (1965)
In this episode, originally broadcast on March 21, 1965, Dr. Shlomo Noble visits the WEVD studio for a program entitled “Mentshn fregn dem YIVO” (People Ask YIVO). Dr. Noble reports on the types of questions that YIVO gets and how YIVO receives the inquiries and answers them, as well as ...
YIVO in the News and Staff News – September and Early October 2014
Coverage of the Vilna Project
YIVO’s press conference in Vilnius about the launch of its fundraising campaign for the YIVO Vilna Project was covered by numerous Lithuanian news outlets and other worldwide media, including:
Der Standard
Delfi (English-language)
LRT Fonoteka Radio
Lrytas
ELTA
Kauno diena
Alfa
Vilniaus Diena
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania featured a report on the press conference on their English-language website.
The project was written up in the New York Times, The Jewish Week, and the Forward. The New York Times article was picked up by numerous websites, including Haaretz.
YIVO Launches the “YIVO Vilna Project”
YIVO Executive Director Jonathan Brent and Director of Development Suzanne Leon held a press conference to announce YIVO’s new international project to preserve and digitize all of the YIVO prewar collections that survived looting by the Nazis and which are now located in both YIVO in New York and in Lithuanian repositories.