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YIVO Video and Audio Archive
Visit yivo.org/Video-Audio-Archive to view or listen to many of YIVO’s programs from 2005 to the present. Some of our most recent additions include:
Sunday, April 6, 2014: Passing the Torch: Jewish Music Archives and the Future of Yiddish Song, a symposium that brought together archivists, scholars and performers to discuss the history and creation of Yiddish folk music archives, and the future of the study and performance of Yiddish song today. The event was dedicated to the memory of Chana Mlotek, YIVO’s Music Archivist from 1978 until her recent passing at age 91 in 2013. Watch the video.
From the Pages of Yedies
by ROBERTA NEWMAN The 1960s marked a new era for public interest in the Holocaust. The trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961 was the first trial to be televised internationally and drew large audiences in the United States. In 1964, I Never Saw Another Butterfly,an anthology of poems and drawings by children ...
Two Gates: Hillel Halkin Revisits Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Life and Literature
How to re-examine Vladimir Jabotinsky, a man whose political life kept him almost constantly in the public eye?
YIVO Purchases Collection of Abraham Sutzkever Correspondence
On March 12, 2014, YIVO purchased a collection of more than 300 letters, poems, drawings, telegrams, and other miscellaneous papers at a Judaica auction by Kestenbaum & Company. The documents include both prewar and postwar letters to and from Abraham Sutzkever (1913-2010), one of the leading Yiddish poets of the twentieth ...
YIVO’s Annual Conference (1965)
In this episode of YIVO’s radio program on WEVD, originally heard on January 10, 1965, Dr. Nosn Reich talks about the 39th Annual YIVO Conference, which would convene later that month in New York. Many of the upcoming episodes of the series focus on the conference and present excerpts from ...
YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Interview with Cecile Kuznitz
Author Cecile E. Kuznitz talks about her book, the first full-length history of YIVO.
Caring for and Learning the History of a Book Published in 1694
by J.D. ARDEN,Reference and Genealogy Assistant, Center for Jewish History Last week, April 27 – May 3, library and archival institutions observed Preservation Week. Among them, the organization Heritage Health has been working for the past decade on raising awareness of the state of cultural heritage collections in the U.S. In ...
From the Pages of Yedies
by ROBERTA NEWMAN In June 1953, Yedies reported on the publication of a new issue of Yidishe shprakh (Yiddish language). Topics covered range from detailed discussions of grammar to the varieties of uses of the word tsores (troubles). The scholars who wrote for Yidishe shprakh were 60 years closer than we ...
YIVO Launches the “YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland”
For Immediate Release
May 2, 2014
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
Contact: Roberta Newman, Director of Digital Initiatives
rnewman@yivo.cjh.org
917-606-8293
NEW YORK, N.Y. The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is delighted to announce the launch of the YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland, at polishjews.yivoarchives.org. The website provides access to thousands of digitized documents, manuscripts, photographs, artworks, films, and audio recordings relating to the rich and vibrant Jewish community in Poland before World War II. Conceived as an educational experience and a research tool, the new website has been developed to serve a broad audience of both the general public and scholars.
Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida Opening at Film Forum in New York on May 2, 2014
In Ida, filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski uses the story of a young novice in a convent who discovers her own past as a hidden Jewish child to explore not only the Holocaust, but also postwar Poland under Communism. “Ida may not end on exactly the note some viewers might wish, hoping, no ...