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(NEW YORK, January 5, 2015) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Rakhmiel Peltz as the inaugural Atran Visiting Professor of Yiddish Language and Linguistics. Dr. Peltz, a specialist in the social history of Yiddish language and culture, is the Founding Director of ...

Outside media articles from 2015 about YIVO and YIVO-related topics.

From January 5-January 23, Beverly Bailis will teach “Modernism, Gender, and War in Early 20th Century Hebrew” in the YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization.

She currently teaches Hebrew and Hebrew literature at Brooklyn College. She received her BA in Literature from Bard College, her M.A. in Jewish Civilization from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her Ph.D. in Hebrew Literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary. In addition to specializing in Modern Hebrew Literature, Bailis’s research interests include Modern Jewish Literature, Gender Studies, and Modernism. Recently she completed her dissertation, “Fantasies of Modernity: Representations of the Jewish Female Body in Turn-of-the-Century Hebrew Fiction.” She has taught courses at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, the JCC in Manhattan, Town and Village Synagogue, and other adult education programs in New York City.

She is interviewed here by Leah Falk.

YIVO mourns the passing of Dr. Benjamin Nadel, who died last last week on December 11 at the age of 96. Dr. Nadel was a linguist and a scholar of Ancient Greek and Yiddish, who received his early education in the Yiddish secular schools in Vilna. He was accepted into ...

Last week, we congratulated Jordan Schnitzer Book Award winners Rebecca Kobrin and James Loeffler. They richly deserve our mazel tovs but we were a year late: Oops! They were last year’s winners. This year’s winners of the annual prizes awarded by Association for Jewish Studies every December to honor outstanding scholarship ...

Assemble the letterheads of Jewish organizations, institutions, and individuals in Europe, North and South America, and Palestine from the 1890s to the eve of World War II in 1939 and you have a portrait of the Jewish world: transnational; diverse in language, political, and religious orientation; and flourishing. Di gantse velt ...

On this episode of YIVO’s radio program, originally aired on April 25, 1965, Yiddish and Hebrew writer, bibliographer, lexicographer, and journalist Moshe Starkman talks about important Yiddish writers and how YIVO in Vilna was influential in documenting and helping their careers. Today, Moshe Starkman's papers can be found in the ...

On Sunday, December 7, 2014, YIVO’s Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies and NYU’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies held a symposium for scholars on Der Tog (The Day), the Yiddish daily that began publishing in New York in 1914, and then, after a merger with another ...

YIVO congratulates this year’s Jordan Schnitzer Book Award winners. The annual prizes are awarded by Association for Jewish Studies every December to honor outstanding scholarship in Jewish Studies. This year’s roster of winners includes two scholars who have used YIVO’s Archives and Library as research resources and who have appeared as ...

Assemble the letterheads of Jewish organizations, institutions, and individuals in Europe, North and South America, and Palestine from the 1890s to the eve of World War II in 1939 and you have a portrait of the Jewish world: transnational; diverse in language, political, and religious orientation; and flourishing. Di gantse velt ...