YIVO in the News/Staff Notes

On March 25, YIVO Executive Director Jonathan Brent delivered a lecture at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, DC, “The Last Books: Recovering the East European Jewish Past,” on the dramatic story of YIVO’s collections in Vilna: looted by the Nazis, destroyed, hidden, and, in part, rescued.

YIVO Kronhill Scholar in Residence Steven J. Zipperstein will deliver a lecture entitled “Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Michael Davitt and the Burdens of Truth” on April 2 at the Columbia University Seminar in Jewish Studies. On April 7, he will be a roundtable participant at an international conference on Zionism and Jewish Culture at Brown University.

YIVO Senior Research Scholar David E. Fishman writes about the revolution in Ukraine in  “Will Ukraine’s Revolution Be Good for Its Jews?” (Forward Forum, February 26).

YIVO Senior Photo and Film Archivist Krysia Fisher is quoted in “A Glimpse of Warsaw,” a review of the exhibition on photographer Menachem Kipnis that she curated at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.

Programs Coordinator Leah Falk was selected to attend the 2014 Asylum Arts International Jewish Artist Retreat in Garrison, New York.

A post in The New Yorker blog on books rescued by the Monument Men, “What Became of the Jewish Books?”, focuses on one particular book in the YIVO Library. Roberta Newman’s comment below the article attempts to correct inaccuracies in the article.

Actor Mandy Patinkin mentions YIVO in an interview he gave to The Jewish Chronicle on March 14, “From Homeland to PSO, Judaism infuses star’s performances.”

In “How I Discovered the Remarkable Liebmann Family and My Own Family History at the Same Time” in the Fall 2013 issue of Dorot, The Journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society, Herb Klitzner writes about doing research in collections in the YIVO Archives and about a lead he got for his research from YIVO’s exhibition on the Freeland League.