YIVO in the News & Staff Notes, December 2014

YIVO's 89th Annual Benefit, which honored Faina Kukliansky, the Hon. Anne E. Derse, and Dr. Yitzhak Arad, has received attention in Lithuana, including the websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania and the Jewish Community of Lithuania.

The Letters to Afar exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York continues to receive attention, including these reviews in the Forward's Sisterhood blog and Jewish Image.

Ambassador Mal Berisha's lecture on Albanian-Jewish Relations at the December 14 Ruth Gay Seminar in Jewish Studies was reported on by the UK Albanians Network.

David Mazower wrote about a Jewish festival in the Polish town of Kutno for the BBC and linked to a YIVO Encylopedia article on his great-grandfather, the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch, a native of Kutno.

Staff Notes

An article by YIVO Director of Education Jennifer Young, "Fighting Anti-Semitism and Jim Crow: “Negro-Jewish Unity” in the International Workers Order," appears in the Fall 2014 issue of AJS Perspectives.