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Which Way for Traditional Jewish Learning in America? (1968)
A 1968 conference paper contemplates the future of advanced yeshiva studies in America.
A Seamstress Wants to Learn Esperanto
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
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)
And remarks about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Translated and Improved
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
List of recipients of YIVO’s 2017-2018 faculty and graduate student fellowships.
Jacob Glatstein on Mendele (1968)
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
One of the oldest documents in the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections
Yiddish Writers in YIVO's Archives
YIVO’s archives have numerous manuscripts, letters, papers and more from many major Yiddish writers.