Working with the YIVO Collections

A comic by MIGLĖ ANUŠAUSKAITĖ

Miglė Anušauskaitė is a Judaica researcher and a cartoonist from Lithuania. She worked in the Judaica Research Center of the National Library of Lithuania, mainly with the manuscripts in Yiddish from the Interwar period. Apart from her direct responsibilities and participation in the YIVO project, Miglė has worked extensively with texts and translations from Yiddish and from English to Lithuanian. She has translated two non-fiction books from English and an autobiography from Yiddish to Lithuanian and English. She has recently made three small comic books about the culture of Ashkenazi Jews. She has also written and drawn many comics about literature, science, and history, among them – a graphic novel on Greimassian semiotics, presently being adapted into an animated movie.

Miglė’s participation in the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project included sorting the newly-found documents according to provenance, preparing them for cataloging, and later – cataloging as the first step in the documents’ journey of being restored, scanned, and reunited virtually in the YIVO online collection.

Miglė will be joining us on Zoom for YIVO Yiddish Club on Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 2:00pm ET. Register to join.

Read her full comic below.