YIVO Press Releases

(NEW YORK, October 5, 2010)– The YIVO Institute announced today the launching of a new website, "The Milstein Online Archives of the New York Jewish Community," which can be accessed by clicking here or at its official address www.milsteinjewisharchives.yivo.org. The site, sponsored by the Paul and Irma Milstein Foundation, reflects ...

Enhancement of Critically Acclaimed Work Adds Selections from YIVO’S Vast Archive of Images and Media (NEW YORK, June 10, 2010)– What is the history of the shtetl? How far was Minsk from Pinsk? Who wrote the first Yiddish novel? What did the Misnagdim believe? Why were so many Polish Jews tavern ...

(NEW YORK, May 2010) – On May 26, 2010, Martin Flumenbaum officially joined the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Board of Directors. A senior partner at the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in the Litigation Department (which he chaired from 1999 to 2005), and a member ...

Bequest of Mickey Ross Yields $4.5 Million (NEW YORK, January 7, 2010) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce that it has received a gift of approximately $4.5 million from the estate of Michael (Mickey) Ross, an award-winning television writer who was first generation son of Jewish ...

(NEW YORK, October 2009)– The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research announced an all-day public conference on New York and the American Jewish Experience, funded by the Milstein Family Foundation and the Howard and Abby Milstein Foundation, to be held on Monday, November 2. The conference, which marks the culmination of ...

(NEW YORK, May 21, 2009) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has appointed Jonathan Brent, 59, to be its executive director and CEO effective July 1. Brent succeeds Carl J. Rheins, who has resigned for health reasons. In ten years as executive director, Rheins helped renew YIVO’s position as ...

(NEW YORK, May 11, 2009) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is proud to announce it will honor Alan M. Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard University Law School, and Matthew Goldstein, Chancellor of the City University of New York, on May 26, 2009. Bruce Slovin, Chair of ...

(NEW YORK, April 2015) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will honor Saul Kagan (Lifetime Achievement Award), Drs. Emilia and Alexander Sedlis (Vilna Award) and Eta Wrobel, in memoriam (Special YIVO Recognition Award), at its 8th Annual Heritage Luncheon on May 6, 2009, at the Center for Jewish History. ...

(NEW YORK, March 1, 2009)– The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is proud to announce the opening of its new exhibition Stars, Strikes, and the Yiddish Stage: The Story of the Hebrew Actors’ Union, 1899–2005 on March 12, at the Center for Jewish History. A major gift from Eli Broad, ...

(NEW YORK, March 2009) – The Association of Jewish Libraries has named The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe best reference work of 2008 in the Judaica Reference and Bibliography awards bestowed by its Research Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections Division. In addition, the encyclopedia has received Honorable Mention ...