YIVO

The Yidisher visnshaftlekher Institute ( ייִדישער וויסנשאַפֿטלעכער אינסטיטוט, Acronym: YIVO / ייִוואָ, dt " Yiddish (or Jewish ) Scientific Institute ", English YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, formerly Yiddish Scientific Institute) was founded in 1925 by conferences in Berlin in the then Polish Vilnius as created academic institution for the study of Yiddish and East European Jewish culture. Were among the founders, among others, Max Weinreich (1894-1969), Elias Tcherikower (1881-1943) and Nochum Shtif ( 1879-1933 ).

The YIVO was through his work on Jewish history, Yiddish literature and Yiddish orthography etc. to the authority in the field of Yiddish language. Some of the associates included, among other things, famous scientists like Simon Dubnow and Saul Ginsburg.

The original headquarters of the Institute was in its time Polish Vilnius, field offices were in Berlin, Warsaw and New York City. 1940, after the outbreak of the Second World War, the headquarters were moved to New York before the National Socialists in 1941, the Institute in Vilnius plundered. The field office in Buenos Aires, Fundación IWO, there are today.

In the 1990s, older YIVO material from Vilnius was brought to New York, the librarians were hiding during the Soviet period.

Today, the New York headquarters houses a library with more than a million titles, including manuscripts, rare books, etc. Here also the following periodicals were published: YIVO Bleter (founded in 1931), Yedies fun YIVO (1929) and Yidishe Sprakh ( 1941).

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