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Lawrence H. Summers Confronts Anti-Semitism on College Campuses

10/12/2015

Former Treasury Secretary and President Emeritus of Harvard University, Summers, discusses the growing concerns of anti-Semitism on college campuses amidst the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

YIVO Celebrates 90th Anniversary in Vilnius, Lithuania

10/9/2015

When YIVO was established in Vilna 90 years ago, in 1925, Vilna was part of Poland, and was officially known as Wilno. Today, Vilna is known as Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, and YIVO is gradually returning to its roots there, through its joint Vilna Collections project with the Martynas ...

The Role of Jewish Police in the Ghettos (1967)

10/9/2015

Nachman Blumenthal on role of Jewish police in the ghettos (YIVO on WEVD, 1967).

Three Exhibitions About YIVO in Europe

10/8/2015

YIVO on exhibition in Vilnius and Krakow

Untold Story of Anne Frank’s Family

10/7/2015

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents the world premiere of the film No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story. Based on recently-discovered letters by Otto Frank in YIVO’s archives, No Asylum interviews Anne Frank’s surviving family, Buddy Elias and Eva Geiringer-Schloss, about the family’s last efforts to seek refuge in America before going into hiding in 1942. The Frank family was discovered and arrested in 1944.  

The Forverts and the Vorwärts

9/25/2015

German and Jewish labor unions on the Lower East Side: forgotten links.

The role of the Judenrat in the Holocaust (1967)

9/25/2015

The role of the Judenrat in the Holocaust.

Max Weinreich on Ashkenazic Jewry, 1000-1300 (1967)

8/27/2015

A paper by Max Weinreich on Ashkanaz, 1100-1300

Archaeological discoveries at the site of Vilna's Groyse shul (Great Synagogue)

8/25/2015

Archaeologists probe the site of Vilna’s Great Synagogue.

Theo Bikel's Final Farewell

7/24/2015

Theodore Bikel (1924 - 2015) sings "Di zun vet aruntergeyn" at the YIVO 13th Annual Heritage Luncheon in his honor on June 18, 2015.