YIVO in the News/Staff Notes – August 2014

The YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland is glowingly reviewed on a website dedicated to the Jewish community of Dnepetrovsk.

In an August 20 article in the Malibu Times, "Malibu Film Archive Gives Light To Anne Frank Documentary," filmmaker Paula Fouce speaks of the importance of YIVO’s Holocaust collections, including the recently discovered Otto Frank file. (The article includes some inaccuracies, including the statement that YIVO has spent "$7 million dollars" on a "research tool for Holocaust survivors and their testimonies."

YIVO is mentioned in an NBC News report, "Meet the Polish Catholic Devoted to Helping American Jews," and in an essay by Peter N. Miller in The Chronicle of Higher Education, "How Objects Speak."

KlezKamp’s beginnings as a project of YIVO were cited in Jon Kalish’s article in The Forward on August 26, "After 30 Years, First Klezmer Festival Founder Says 'Mission Accomplished': KlezKamp To End After Final Gathering in December."

August 7, 1925 is cited as the date that YIVO was founded in Vilna in "This Day in Jewish History" in the Cleveland Jewish News. (YIVO traditionally observes March 24, 1925 as its anniversary. Read the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe entry on YIVO to find out why.)

YIVO Programs Coordinator Leah Falk has had reviews and other articles published in August in Ha’aretz, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Jewniverse.

Faith Jones, an alumnus of YIVO’s intensive Yiddish summer program has just completed her MA at the University of British Columbia. Her thesis, based on one of the autobiographies entered into YIVO’s 1942 autobiography contest is entitled "The autobiography of Esther Shechter : Yiddish print culture in Winnipeg in transnational context."

Thanks to Jessica Tauber for research assistance.