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Which Way for Traditional Jewish Learning in America? (1968)

5/5/2017

A 1968 conference paper contemplates the future of advanced yeshiva studies in America.

A Seamstress Wants to Learn Esperanto

5/1/2017

An application to a course in Vilna hints at the appeal that universalism held for some young Polish Jews.

Sounds of Industry and Jammed Transmissions: Spotlight on Composer Annie Gosfield

4/26/2017

Annie Gosfield is a Jewish American composer who grew up in Philadelphia, born to parents who had both been born in New York City.

Historian Isaiah Trunk on Holocaust Research (1968)

4/20/2017

And remarks about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

Wild Animals I Have Known

4/13/2017

A Yiddish Translation of an American Classic

Translated and Improved

4/5/2017

In the vision of the participants of Yiddish theater of interwar period, translation created cultural bridges through which creativity traveled in both directions.

2017-2018 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows

3/20/2017

List of recipients of YIVO’s 2017-2018 faculty and graduate student fellowships.

Jacob Glatstein on Mendele (1968)

3/16/2017

A live recording of a lecture on Yiddish literature delivered at YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.

A 16th-Century Document About Jewish Residence Rights in a Bavarian Town

3/16/2017

One of the oldest documents in the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections

Yiddish Writers in YIVO's Archives

3/15/2017

YIVO’s archives have numerous manuscripts, letters, papers and more from many major Yiddish writers.