Panel on YIVO at 2014 Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies

A panel on the history of YIVO was one of the opening sessions at the 46th annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies in Baltimore on December 14. Organized by Sarah Zarrow of New York University, it was entitled "YIVO and Jewish Social Science: The Standardization of Practice and Community."

The three papers presented were "'Holy Collection Work': The Relationship Between YIVO and its Zamlers" by Zarrow; "The Joys of Yiddish Standardization: How the YIVO Linguists Reinvented the Language" by Leyzer Burko (The Jewish Theological Seminary); and "Creating a Comparative Social Science: Yiddish Research and African-American Research on 'Culture and Personality'," by Professor Leila Zenderland (California State University - Fullerton). Professor Cecile Kuznitz (Bard College) served as respondent and the panel was chaired by Roberta Newman (YIVO).