YIVO Announces Its First Annual Summer Internship

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the establishment of The Horowitz Family Summer Internship, endowed by Rosemary Horowitz of Boone, North Carolina. This internship will provide professional training for young people in the YIVO Archives and Library, and to educate future generations of archivists and librarians interested in East European Jewish history and Yiddish culture.

The first Horowitz Family Summer Intern is Brandeis University graduate Jessica Podhorcer. Her background includes internships at the JDC Archive, Brandeis University Library, and the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People. Over the course of her eight-week internship, Podhorcer will process a collection of YIVO’s administrative records from 1925 to 1941, assist in completing the database for the Strashun Library private collection of rare Hebrew imprints, and select new acquisitions for the YIVO Library.

“It is an honor to receive the Rosemary Horowitz Scholarship. YIVO exemplifies the pinnacle of what a historical research institution can be, in terms of both its collections and its high standards and quality of work,” said Podhorcer. “For me, a career in archives represents a lifetime engaged firsthand with history, making it accessible to the present and preserving it for the future.”