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Uriel Weinreich Summer Program Testimonial: Gelya Frank ‘21
Gelya Frank talks about her experience in this year's Summer Program and how it helped her reconnect to her Jewish identity.
Uriel Weinreich Summer Program Testimonial: Jake Millhouse ‘21
Jake Milhouse talks about his experience in this year's Summer Program and how it transformed into a lifelong devotee of Yiddish language and culture.
Landsmanshaftn Collections to be More Accessible through Grant from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research was awarded the John Stedman Memorial Grant for its Landsmanshaftn Collection Portal Project. The grant will support work to increase online access to YIVO’s lansdmanshaftn collections.
The Yiddishists: The Workers’ Olympiad
See the tenth article in the Jewish Renaissance column The Yiddishists, delving into the YIVO Archives.
After a Year of Pandemic, Online Yiddish Learning is Here to Stay
On Friday, July 30, 2021, nearly 100 students will graduate from The Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture. In response to the global pandemic, the program has run online these past two summers and seen its largest enrollments in its over 50-year history.
Featured Artifact: Zygmunt Turkow (1896-1970)
The Yiddish actor and director Zygmunt Turkow was born and raised in Warsaw, where he got his start on the stage and went on to co-found—in partnership with his wife at the time, actress Ida Kaminska—the influential dramatic troupe “Varshever Yidisher Kunst-Theater” (Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater; circa 1924-1928).
Featured Artifact: Elias Tcherikower (1881-1943)
Elias Tcherikower was a founding member of YIVO in Vilna, a member of its Executive Committee, and Chairman of YIVO’s Historical Section from 1925-1940 as well as a historian and political activist.
What I Learned as a Research Fellow on the Project
Kronhill Pletka YIVO Research Fellow Ruby Landau-Pincus discusses her work on the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project.
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Project Collections Available Online
A list of the 51 collections from the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project available to view online, containing prewar YIVO administrative records, Yiddish theater and literature, Jewish community council records, and the personal papers of historical figures like Simon Dubnow and Shalom Schwarzbard.